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Corpus vs Metadata - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between corpus and metadata

is that corpus is body while metadata is data that describes other data, serving as an informative label.

corpus

English

(wikipedia corpus)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • body
  • (linguistics) a collection of writings, often on a specific topic, of a specific genre, from a specific demographic, a single author etc.
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    metadata

    Noun

    (-)
  • Data that describes other data, serving as an informative label.
  • Most websites contain metadata to tell the computer how to lay the words out on the screen.

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