Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Thro. The Creation of Metadata: Professionals, Content Creators, Users Metadata is often characterized as “data about data.”
Metadata is information, often highly structured, about documents, books, articles, photographs, or other items that is designed to support specific functions. These functions are usually to facilitate some organization and access of information. Administrative, structural, and descriptive metadata are three broad categories of metadata (Taylor, 2004). This paper focus primarily on descriptive metadata which identifies and functions to organize information based on its intellectual content. Beckman Institute: Postdoctoral Fellows. Nigel Goldenfelds Home Page.