TermCraft conventionFoundational
Metadata
Information about the content rather than the content itself.
Definition
Structured data describing a piece of content: its type, date, author, tags and relationships.
Craft convention. True because the industry converged on it. Breaking it costs familiarity, not correctness.
In plain language
Information about the content rather than the content itself.
Example
A resource's category, difficulty and tags, which power filtering and related-content suggestions.
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Each link says what the connection is, so you can tell a principle from an alternative from a thing people mix this up with.
Deeper reading
The full entry behind this definition.
- FilteringPattern
- Information ArchitectureResearch method
- SEO for Content ProductsUX writing
Related concept
Connected closely enough to change how you apply this.
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