definition of "meta"

Diane Madrigal DMADRIGA at MAIL.NYSED.GOV
Wed Mar 4 11:42:29 EST 1998


The Federal Geographic Data Committee's pamphlet, "The Value of
Metadata," provides this definition of (geospatial) metadata:

"Meta means change and metadata, or "data about data," describes the
origins of and tracks the changes to geospatial data."

Diane Madrigal
New York State Library


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