the.com/metadata
Data's resume — doesn't do the work, but explains who did and when.
means Metadata is data about data — information describing a file or piece of content, like its creator, date, size, or format, rather than the content itself.
from Built from Greek 'meta-' (beyond, after, about) plus 'data,' itself from Latin 'datum,' meaning 'a thing given.' The term emerged among computing and library-science circles in the mid-20th century as systems needed a word for 'information about information' — a label for the card catalog, not the book.
- literal meaning
- data about data, annoyingly recursive
- photos
- gps location often hides inside your selfies
- famous leak
- nsa scandal was basically metadata, not content
- legal weight
- courts treat it as evidence, not footnote