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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

metadata

Metadata is data which describes other data and makes it easier for electronic files to be stored, categorised, searched and retrieved from a database or other place of storage.

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find (or search)searchmeta tagstoredatabasedatabase management system (DBMS)
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