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I’ve been working on some personal projects lately that have got me thinking about metadata. I thought I’d lay down a brief introduction here in case anyone’s interested. Of course, the people who would geek out about metadata are the people who probably already know all about it, hence the alternate title of this post.

So, what is metadata, and why should you care? Metadata is data about data (that’s what “meta” means), and I guarantee you work with it every day. Think of a file on your computer as the data. Metadata would be things like the file’s name, its size, type, location, etc. Notice how all that information is useful, and most OSes present it quickly and easily? That’s the point of metadata. It helps you organize and understand the actual data. Did you know digital cameras can include information in each picture file including what kind of camera took the picture, the image settings used, and even GPS coordinates? Try looking up EXIF some time.

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