authoritative source of repository for names, semantics and syntaxes for one or more schemas. An application that
uses metadata languages in a form processable by machines to make those languages available for use by both humans
and machines. [Archives] 
n., See
: metadata element set [Archives] 
methodology 
n., The system of broad principles or rules from which specific methods or procedures may be derived to understand different situations (or solve different problems) within the scope of a particular di