A large metropolitan high school gives each of its students an ID number to differentiate them in its database. What kind of metadata are the ID numbers?

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A large metropolitan high school gives each of its students an ID number to differentiate them in its database. What kind of metadata are the ID numbers?

The ID numbers are descriptive metadata. Descriptive metadata helps identify and distinguish resources—like records in a database—by providing unique labels or identifiers. The student ID serves as a unique tag that differentiates each student's record and facilitates retrieval and reference within the system. It’s not primarily about how the data are managed (administrative), how the data are organized or related (structural), or data generated from other data (derived).

The ID numbers are descriptive metadata. Descriptive metadata helps identify and distinguish resources—like records in a database—by providing unique labels or identifiers. The student ID serves as a unique tag that differentiates each student's record and facilitates retrieval and reference within the system. It’s not primarily about how the data are managed (administrative), how the data are organized or related (structural), or data generated from other data (derived).

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