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Performance management is the end to end process of evaluating employee performance. It should incorporate the goals and values of the organization and help to reinforce organizational behavior. More than a traditional employee appraisal system, performance management systems provide clearly defined expectations, regular feedback,... more »
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An ISO file is an archive image of an optical disk, either a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM. It is the file format you find when you download a Linux distribution. It can also be used to archive files either for storing on a hard drive or for burning to optical. Learn how to create a basic ISO file from the command line in Linux. more »
Chkdsk is an abbreviation for the command "Check Disk" on computers that run Windows, O2/2 and DOS operating systems. When you run Chkdsk on your computer, you can check for the status of any floppy disk and hard disk and also fix file system errors. Running Chkdsk also can help in dealing with physical errors and recovering any lost... more »
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Metadata (meta data, or sometimes metainformation) is "data about data", of any sort in any media. Metadata is text, voice, or image that describes what the audience wants or needs to see or experience. The audience could be a person, group, or software program. Metadata is important because it aids in clarifying and finding the actual data. An item of metadata may describe an individual datum, or content item, or a collection of data including multiple content items and hierarchical levels, such as a database schema. In data processing, metadata provides information about, or documentation of, other data managed within an application or environment. This commonly defines the structure or schema of the primary data.
For example, metadata would document data about data elements or attributes, (name, size, data type, etc) and data about records or data structures (length, fields, columns, etc) and data about data (where it is located, how it is associated, ownership, etc.). Metadata may include descriptive information about the context, quality and condition, or characteristics of the data. It may be recorded with high or low granularity.
An example of metadata occurs within file systems. Associated with every file on the storage medium is metadata that records the date the file was created, the date it was last modified and the date the file (or indeed the metadata itself) was last accessed.
Purpose
Metadata provides context for data.
Metadata is used to facilitate the understanding, usage, and management of data, both by human and computers. Thus metadata can describe the data conceptually so that others can understand them; it can describe the data syntactically so others can use them; and the two types of descriptions together can facilitate decisions about how to manage the data.
The metadata required to effectively work with data with the type of data, their context of use, and their purpose. Often data providers will read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata
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