Pixels are impoverished without metadata. Timestamps, device IDs, calibration parameters, environmental sensors—these contextual signals allow correlation and causal reasoning. Metadata transforms streams into datasets suitable for indexing, search, and analytics. But meaning is not automatic: labels, ontologies, and taxonomies shape what systems recognize and ignore. Choices made at design time—what to detect, what to retain, how long to keep it—encode values as much as technical constraints.
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