A Description of Metadata Metadata is information you create to describe your documents. This metadata is extracted from your documents and indexed into a searchable form. People then search your metadata in order to find your documents.
Metadata gives focus to searching.
Imagine a database where every record has only one field. You can find records, but records can't be grouped by unique attributes, because there aren't any. The FindOR online document index is like a fielded database, and the fields consist of the FindOR attribute set elements. Any given document has a number of attributes that make it unique and could potentially help others to find it. We have attempted to capture those unique elements.