What is Metadata?

Getting started with Metadata, a beginners guide to metadata. This video expains what metadata is and why it is important to record it.

You can also view this video, and more information on metadata, on the Go-Geo! website: http://www.gogeo.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mdlearningmain.cgi

The video was created by EDINA staff. If you have any questions about the video or about sharing your own data sets please do get in touch (edina@ed.ac.uk).

Category:

Education

Tags:

• metadata
• datasets
• sharing
• research
• informationscience
• librarianship
• geotagging
• catalogue
• data