METADATA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does metadata mean? 

• METADATA (noun)
  The noun METADATA has 1 sense:

1. data about data

  Familiarity information: METADATA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• METADATA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Data about data

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

a library catalog is metadata because it describes publications

Hypernyms ("metadata" is a kind of...):

data; information (a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn)

 Context examples 

It enables other services to publish, retrieve, discover, remove, and version metadata definitions.

(caGrid Global Model Exchange, NCI Thesaurus)

NOTE(S): Sponsors should define the reference period in the study metadata.

(Performed Medical History Result End Relative To Reference Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

A collection of data variables or metadata for use with a Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) data submission.

(CDISC Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

A database and a set of APIs and tools used to create, edit, control, deploy and find common data elements (CDEs) for metadata consumers and for UML model development.

(Cancer Data Standards Repository, NCI Thesaurus)

Sponsors should define the reference period in the study metadata.

(Adverse Event End Relative To Reference Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

NOTE(S): Derived from comparing PerformedSubstanceAdministration.actualDateRange.IVLTS.DATETIME.low and PerformedStudySubjectMilestone.studyReferenceDateRange.Sponsors should define the reference period in the study metadata.This may be populated when a start date is not collected.

(Performed Substance Administration Start Relative To Reference Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The underlying services oriented architecture that supports caBIG. caGrid defines two types of grid services that can be registered as nodes on the grid: Data Services and Analytical Services. caGrid provides a standard infrastructure for bioinformaticians to advertise their services thru common metadata defined in Unified Modeling Language (UML) domain information model. caGrid infrastructure also provides strong semantic specification thru binding to description logic terminology concepts that can be used by users to discover new and interesting scientific information using semantically aware searches.

(caGrid, NCI Thesaurus)

NOTE(S): Derived from comparing PerformedSubstanceAdministration.actualDateRange.IVLTS.DATETIME.high and PerformedStudySubjectMilestone.studyReferenceDateRange.Sponsors should define the reference period in the study metadata.This may be populated when a start date is not collected.

(Performed Substance Administration End Relative To Reference Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)