#self-describe
- 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-described — Having been depicted, portrayed, or characterized by oneself or through one's own integrated logical mechanisms; an individual or digital system whose features, qualities, or structures were directly explained by their author, without external interpretations or validations. In computer science, it describes the state of an object or file that autonomously declares its metadata.