Sharing data and metadata together

Posted by Bob_Mesibov on Jul 29, 2020 5:41 PM
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Metadata is data about data. For a data table, the metadata might include information about what the table is, who compiled it, what its sources are, what its field names mean and what its abbreviations stand for. The table's metadata normally stand outside the rows and columns of the table itself, so how can you keep a table and its metadata together, but still make the table data available for re-use?

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