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Subject:User friendly term for Metadata From:pete swisher <PSwisher -at- QUARK -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 28 Apr 1999 08:49:52 -0600
Hi.
Metadata means "data about data." In the software I'm documenting, an end
user can build custom data views using metadata fields. For example, I could
choose the file name, file location, thumbnail, and file size metadata
fields in building such a data view. Then, when I view a file, I only see
that information.
However, I feel metadata could be intimidating to our end users. Our
audience ranges from sys admins to librarians. A possible choice is
"header", but that's a little vague. Does anyone have some good
suggestions?
