Data Attribute Metadata Record

A Data Attribute Metadata Record is a Metadata Record for a Data Record Attribute.

• AKA: Data Record Attribute Metadata Record.
• Context:
  • It can have a Data Attribute Identifier.
  • It can have a Data Attribute Name.
  • It can have a Data Attribute Domain.
  • It can have a Data Attribute Constraint that restricts Update Operations.
• Example(s):
  • (ID=1, Name=ID, Domain=Positive Integer).
  • (Name=Name.First, Domain=Text), from a Person Record Set.
  • (ID=4, Name=Publication.Title, Domain=Text, Constraint=Cardinality ≤100), from a Citation Record Set.
• See: Data Record Set, Metadata.

References

• http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=metadata
  • S: (n) metadata (data about data) "a library catalog is metadata because it describes publications"
• http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/metadata
  • Information about other information.
    • Most websites contain metadata to tell the computer how to lay the words out on the screen.