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All of a sudden I hear the term metadata in the news.
What is metadata. Metadata is information
about an object. If I tell you that I have a vehicle
it really doesn't tell you much. But if I tell you I drive a black
car that gives you a very clear picture of
approximately what I have. Now meta data is the descriptors
black and car. Now what that actually tells you in an environment such as a
data environment where
you want to know information about employees, you want to know information
about how something is used, you want to monitor
information about phone calls etcetera the meta-data
comes into play and tells you statistical history
about objects and descriptors about those objects.
An excellent example of this is
the volume of time an individual uses a particular application or looks at a
particular site
may tell you additional information about
other sites or other information or other actions that user is taking.