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What is metadata???
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Posted 28 April 2011 - 10:20 AM
Tonchi
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Posted 28 April 2011 - 10:47 AM
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Metadata is part of C#'s Reflection capabilities, giving your program information about the structures and datatypes that it uses. For a more in-depth description of how it works, I'll link you to an article:
Programming C#: Chapter 18: Attributes and Reflection
Programming C#: Chapter 18: Attributes and Reflection
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
– Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Posted 04 May 2011 - 08:03 AM
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In a more general sense, Metadata is just "data describing data".
In a really basic example, you could have a collection of images, and apply 'labels' to them.
You could mark half of them as family, and the other half as school.
this meta data would then allow you to stereotype that data, and handle it differently depending on the assumptions made, because of this extra descriptive data.
For example, Obviously, you would assume those images marked as family are safe to show to your family.
Use that and build upon the article greg posted there.
In a really basic example, you could have a collection of images, and apply 'labels' to them.
You could mark half of them as family, and the other half as school.
this meta data would then allow you to stereotype that data, and handle it differently depending on the assumptions made, because of this extra descriptive data.
For example, Obviously, you would assume those images marked as family are safe to show to your family.
Use that and build upon the article greg posted there.
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