#metadata

• Annotation — An explanatory note, short comment, addition, or critical observation written in the margin of a text, legal document, or book to clarify, interpret, or highlight a specific informational structure. In modern terminology and computer science, it represents a metadata tag applied to a digital element to assign a precise contextual meaning.
• To self-describe — To consciously and autonomously present, depict, or portray one's own physical, moral, professional, or behavioral traits; to self-characterize through written or spoken language. In computer science, it describes the action of a data format, object, or program exposing its own internal structure and metadata through software reflection mechanisms.
• Self-description — The act of self-describing and its result; a detailed presentation, portrayal, or characterization that a person makes of their own physical, moral, psychological, or professional traits. In computer science, it describes the structural property of a data format or software object to contain its own definition metadata, allowing external systems to understand its structure without extra schemas.
• Self-referential meta — A meta-tag or structural self-reference element within a metadata set that possesses the capacity to describe, configure, or modify its own logical attributes without the intervention of an external script. In software architecture and object-oriented database management, this conceptual element ensures a higher abstraction level, allowing code to run reflexive processes based on dynamically self-updating information schemas.