From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmetadatamet‧a‧da‧ta /ˈmetədeɪtə/ noun [plural, uncountable] information that describes what is contained in large computer databases, for example who wrote the information, what it is for, and in what form it is stored
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metadata• Data comes directly into SpreadBase via DataPrism - no translation is necessary and there is no loss of metadata information on import. 