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meta data Last modified: Thursday, April 26, 2001

Data about data. Meta data describes how and when and by whom a particular set of data was collected, and how the data is formatted. Meta data is essential for understanding information stored in data warehouses.

An Introduction to the Resource Description Framework This article from 1998 is a good resource for beginning to understand RDF. Dave Beckett's Resource Description Framework (RDF) Resource Guide This guide contains links to many RDF resources including examples, documents, software, tools and projects that use it. Resource Description Framework Model and Syntax Specification Proposed Recommendation of the W3C from January 5, 1999.