microdata

Data concerning individuals in a trial, survey etc.

Noun

  1. Data concerning individuals in a trial, survey etc.
    • In fact, labor groups are more likely to win elections for union representation in small workplaces. In a study released this week by the Century Foundation, we analyzed microdata on every union election in the country...
  2. Data stored in a microformat.
  3. A WHATWG standard for embedding metadata in HTML documents; data encoded in such a way.
    • Unlike microformats, microdata uses its own attributes and doesn't risk colliding with style sheet rules […] - 2013, Matthew MacDonald, HTML5: The Missing Manual, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 85:

Origin

From micro- + data.