{"id":13815,"date":"2014-08-14T13:08:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T13:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/metadata-management\/"},"modified":"2014-08-14T13:08:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T13:08:34","slug":"metadata-management","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/30584\/metadata-management","title":{"rendered":"Metadata Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_metadata_management_mean\">What Does Metadata Management Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Metadata management is the administration of metadata in systems. Metadata is often described as data about data and plays key roles in file compression systems and other types of technologies.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"techopedia_explains_metadata_management\">Techopedia Explains Metadata Management<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Throughout the broad range of systems that control data sets, metadata often plays the vital role of providing condensed, scaled-down pointers to large data sets, such as image and video files, large text files, or complex sets of files. \n<\/p>\n<p>In large data centers, metadata helps tag blocks of data so that they can be more easily and scalably moved around in systems. Metadata often helps to eliminate bottlenecks by allowing systems to reference the larger data sets without actually &#8216;calling\u2019 or assessing those larger data sets. \n<\/p>\n<p>One way to think about this is to consider metadata a label applied to a box of data. 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