24 Aug 2004
CS 5244: Indexing / Classification
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Types of metadata
¡Administrative
¡Structural
¡Descriptive
¡Intellectual
Property Rights
¡Use
Metadata that describes the internal and external structure of the data. Identifiers, discussed in last
class, can be seen to fall in this category.
• Organization
• Different resolutions
• Linking to other records
(this is linkage metadata)