English-Finnish translations for metadata

• metadata
• metatieto

Definition of metadata

• Data that describes other data, serving as an informative label
• Structured information about a file (date created, creator, software used to create, last modified, file format, file fingerprint, etc

Examples

• Most websites contain metadata to tell the computer how to lay out the content on the screen.
• That photos metadata suggests it was edited using Photoshop.

Related words

• metadatabase
• metadiegetic
• metadescription