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Metadata vs Metadatum - What's the difference?

metadata | metadatum |

As nouns the difference between metadata and metadatum

is that metadata is data that describes other data, serving as an informative label while metadatum is one piece of metadata; a piece of information describing a piece of data.

metadata

English

(wikipedia 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.

    Related terms

    * metainformation

    See also

    * tag ----

    metadatum

    English

    Noun

    (metadata)
  • One piece of metadata; a piece of information describing a piece of data.
    • The timezone metadatum of the date field can be used to guess the location of the user.