meta data Last modified: Thursday, April 26, 2001
Data about data. Meta data describes how and when and by whom a particular set of data was collected, and how the data is formatted. Meta data is essential for understanding information stored in data warehouses.
•E-mail this definition to a colleague• For internet.com pages about meta data . Also check out the following links! An Introduction to the Resource Description Framework This article from 1998 is a good resource for beginning to understand RDF. Dave Beckett's Resource Description Framework (RDF) Resource Guide This guide contains links to many RDF resources including examples, documents, software, tools and projects that use it. Resource Description Framework Model and Syntax Specification Proposed Recommendation of the W3C from January 5, 1999.	Data data data warehouse meta RDF Give Us Your Feedback Books meta data Products Shop by Top Models: David Marco and Michael Jennings - Universal Meta Data Models 1 store offers from $32 - $32 Dankmar Bohning, Sasivimol Rattanasiri, Ronny Kuhnert - Meta-Analysis of Binary Data Using Profile Likelihood 1 store offers from $69 - $69 Rae R. Newton and Kjell Erik Rudestam - Your Statistical Consultant: Answers to Your Data Analysis Questions 2 store offers from $42 - $133 Larry V. Hedges and Ingram Olkin - Statistical Methods for Meta-Analysis 1 store offers from $84 - $84 M. Woodward - Epidemiology: Study Design and Data Analysis 2 store offers from $47 - $72