Metadata enables users and data providers to locate and use earth observing data.
Data warehousing Meta Meta Data Data by Ralph Kimball, DBMS Online , March 1998 discusses the implementation and use of metadata in data warehousing. Lynch writes that combining the skills of the librarian and the computer scientist may help organise the anarchy of the Internet. At the workshop a minimal set of data elements for describing network accessible materials was proposed This simple resource description record became widely known as the Dublin Core Set . Ron Daniel Jr. June 21, 1996. A whole organisation can use the same standard way to describe networked electronic resources.