EAD 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. 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. Okay, enough theory.