Data About Data

October 24, 2011 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Data About Data

The FutureGov 2011 award was given to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) for innovation and modernization. The AIHW’s METeOR Metadata Online Registry took the Information Management category, recognizing “excellence in the efficient capture, storage and distribution of citizen information”.

We found this interesting information on PS News in their article, “Health Institute award a tonic.” METeOR was a web-based system for managing, developing and storing data definitions and standards, i.e. metadata. Since metadata is data about data, anyone using METeOR can find, view and download data standards. If what you want doesn’t exist, use METeOR’s metadata creation tools to create a proposed standard, seek expert feedback, and even get the standard endorsed.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.