单词 | meta-information |
释义 | meta-informationn. Information about information, esp. information used to order or locate other information; (spec. on the internet) the mark-up information on a web page, etc. (see quot. 1995). Cf. metadata n. at meta- prefix 2c. ΚΠ 1956 J. D. North in C. Cherry Information Theory xxxvi. 375 This information is of a special character, different from the information contained in the message, and might perhaps be called ‘meta-information’. 1982 Computerworld 14 June 29/4 Software that..can access and modify meta information. 1995 T. Berners-Lee & D. Connolly Request for Comments (Network Working Group) (Electronic text) No. 1866 Meta-information has two main functions: to provide a means to discover that the data set exists and how it might be obtained or accessed; and to document the content, quality, and features of a data set. 1999 Network Computing (Nexis) 20 Sept. Scans can also check for meta information within each HTML page to improve cataloging. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1956 |
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