Metadata is basically data about data that sits in a web sites programming.

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The middle layer consists of two STEC ZeusRAM drives and two STEC MLC drives and is used for metadata and intermediate data storage.

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The crude green screen interface had fields that needed to be filled in for show titles and genres (effectively turning what would have been text into valuable metadata data about the data) as well as three summaries of different lengths for each show.

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If we create new levels of common metadata to find, use and organize that data, that too will help.

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For example: Every data file or image is time-stamped, with a certain amount of metadata with each file.

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