BinaryObject (metadata)
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Metadata
The term metadata is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts . Although the expression "data about data" is often used, it does not apply to both in the same way. Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures, cannot be about data, because at...

 a Binary Object is a representation term
Representation term
A representation term is a word, or a combination of words, that semantically represent the data type of a data element. A representation term is commonly referred to as a class word by those familiar with data dictionaries...

used to describe a set of finite-length sequences of binary octets used to represent sound, images and other structures.
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