Role and importance of METADATA

There're several roles that METADATA can perform:
1. Metadata provides detail, well-organized information for an order. For example, metadata gives a lot of information about a customers to the company, such as address, contact number, taste, etc.

2. It helps the company to imporve, research, interpretation, and save the important information.

3. To make end user and implementer understand details of information.

4. It combines a great deal of data which is contextual together to domian of the information.

METADATA is important because:
1. It collects important information, such as simmary, keywords to improve the efficiency of searching so that people can get information they want.
(http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2001/nt_2001_10_01_metadata.htm)

2. It helps people to determine the fitness of the data for use and accelerate the data transfer.
(http://www.sdvc.uwyo.edu/metadata/why.html)

3. It helps people to analyze information efficiently. For example, in an urban research, the researcher can easily get useful information, such as how many people are living in an area? How many metro stations are located in an area? etc.

Reference
Rutgers (2008) Role of metadata
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/events/metadata/MetadataWorkshopWeberBerger/sld004.htm

Gerry McGovern (2001) Why metadata is important
http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2001/nt_2001_10_01_metadata.htm


Peterson, Thomas C.; Owen, Timothy W (2005) Urban Heat Island Assessment: Metadata Are Important.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005JCli...18.2637P