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"Metadata provides the connections as well as the description of content. In a catalog sense think holdings records and bibliographic data." (Fay and Sauers, 2012).

Types of metadata

• Descriptive
• Structural
• Administrative

Metadata used in libraries

• MARC  - describes how to format descriptive content data
• Dublin Core - DC also used in the semantic web by others
• Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard - METS
• Friend of a Friend - FOAF also used in the semantic web by others