Definition

The information that makes digital data legible and useable. It consists of structural, semantic,and other information and includes e.g. descriptions of data formats, file structures, orpixel value representations. Representation information can be provided either in a formalized way, such as an XML formatted dataunit (xfdu), or less formalized as text documents.

Comments

Representation Information: the information that maps a Data Object into more meaningful concepts. An example is the ASCII definition that describes how a sequence of bits (i.e., a Data Object) is mapped into a symbol.

Source

 CEOS/WGISS/DSIG/GLOS

CEOS EO Data Stewardship Glossary

NESDIS Data Management Lexicon and Related Terms

Category

4. Data Stewardship words