Attribute-Oriented Programming — (@OP) is a program level marking technique. Programmers can mark program elements (e.g. classes and methods) to indicate that they maintain application specific or domain specific semantics. For example, some programmers may define a logging… … Wikipedia
Metadata — For the page on metadata about Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Metadata. The term metadata is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts (types). Although the expression data about data is often used, it does not apply to… … Wikipedia
Attribute-value pair — A name–value pair, key–value pair, field–value pair or attribute–value pair is a fundamental data representation in computing systems and applications. Designers often desire an open ended data structure that allows for future extension without… … Wikipedia
Attribute (computing) — In computing, an attribute is a specification that defines a property of an object, element, or file. An attribute of an object usually consists of a name and a value; of an element, a type or class name; of a file, a name and extension. * Each… … Wikipedia
Metadata — Als Metadaten oder Metainformationen bezeichnet man allgemein Daten, die Informationen über andere Daten enthalten. Bei den beschriebenen Daten handelt es sich oft um größere Datensammlungen (Dokumente) wie Bücher, Datenbanken oder Dateien. So… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Entity–attribute–value model — (EAV) is a data model to describe entities where the number of attributes (properties, parameters) that can be used to describe them is potentially vast, but the number that will actually apply to a given entity is relatively modest. In… … Wikipedia
Entity-attribute-value model — (EAV), also known as object attribute value model and open schema is a data model that is used in circumstances where the number of attributes (properties, parameters) that can be used to describe a thing (an entity or object ) is potentially… … Wikipedia
.NET metadata — NET metadata, in the Microsoft .NET framework, refers to certain data structures embedded within the Common Intermediate Language code that describes the high level structure of the code. Metadata describes all classes and class members that are… … Wikipedia
Geospatial metadata — (also geographic metadata, or simply metadata when used in a geographic context) is a type of metadata that is applicable to objects that have an explicit or implicit geographic extent, in other words, are associated with some position on the… … Wikipedia
Department of Defense Discovery Metadata Specification — The Department of Defense Discovery Metadata Specification (DoD Discovery Metadata Specification or DDMS) is a Net Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) metadata initiative. DDMS is loosely based on the Dublin Core vocabulary. DDMS defines discovery … Wikipedia
Climate and Forecast Metadata Conventions — The Climate and Forecast (CF) metadata conventions are conventions for the description of Earth sciences data, intended to promote the processing and sharing of data files. The metadata defined by the CF conventions are generally included in the… … Wikipedia
