Definition: Passive metadata

Category: General concept

Metadata used as documentation in all statistics production regardless of storage environment (ESSnet on Data Warehousing).

Metadata that refer to the data but are not connected with them and are entered separately (Statistics South Africa).

Metadata that are consulted only by humans (Center for Medical Informatics at Yale University School of Medicine). http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/coded_files/ESSNet_Data_Warehousing_Metadata_definitions_V01.zip Statistics South Africa, Concepts and Definitions for Statistics South Africa, Version 3, 2010Yale University School of Medicine, Center for Medical Informatics, "Definition of metadata"