ROMA GUETA

BSCS 2-1

Write a reflective essay on the role of metadata in your own research or personal file and
discuss its impact on the discovery, use, and preservation of information.

First of all, what is metadata? It is a set of data that describes and gives information about other
data. It helps to organize, find, and understand data. So, basically, metadata is simply data about
data, as it gives a description and context of the data. A blog post is one of the many uses for
which metadata is used.

What is a blog post? Based on my research, I gathered that it is any article, news piece, or guide
that's published in the blog section of a website. A blog post typically covers a specific topic or
query, is educational in nature, ranges from 600 to 2,000+ words, and contains other media types
such as images, videos, infographics, and interactive charts.
The data you give to search engines that is not visible to users of your website or blog is known
as metadata. In other words, your blog contains two separate text sets. A portion of what is
visible to humans and one that is visible to search engine algorithms Only by inspecting the
page's source code can people access the metadata. In order for search engine algorithms to more
quickly determine whether the content of a page is relevant to the search term entered by
someone using that search engine to discover information, webmasters employ metadata to
define the many components of each blog page or post.

That is the basic idea of using metadata with your blog. While certain types of metadata are
contained within tags and attributes in the page's body, others are displayed in the HTML
document's Head section. Google will take special care to follow your instructions with the meta
data you supply, regardless of where it appears. Metadata is really vital information.

The search engine is given metadata, and Google is very precise about how it follows your
instructions and uses such data. Make sure your directions are clear, but if you do, you will have
a valuable method of pointing search engines to the crucial parts of your website and describing
each web page's purpose in great detail.