What's the metadata in BW?

what's the metadata in BW?
Is metadata a discription of any object in BW, such as length and type etc.?

Hi
In BW the meta-data contain data about data.
It is like having information about the information.
You have the business related meta-data for example the description used in your reports or the technical related meta-data for example the rules used in the transformation or the extraction. These are the two types of meta-data you have in the metadata repository that you manage with the metadata manager
I hope this helps !
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Boujema
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Also on the IPTC photo metadata site is a more approach able guide to using the fields:
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Peter Krogh's, the DAM Book site and forum:
http://www.thedambook.com/
http://thedambook.com/smf/index.php
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