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You are looking at a database for a university admissions office. Which of the following pieces of data belongs in a metadata field?

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Metadata is the "data about data" and it can include:

-datatype: it is a number? is it a character?
-date of creation
-size
-location where it was created.

So for example, it would read: person X was added to the database on 1.07.2016 in Washington by [name of the computer owner]
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