Client Requirements

Important Terms

To create a metadata client, you must be familiar with the following terms:

metadata type	specifies a template that models the metadata for a resource. For example, the metadata type Column models the metadata for a SAS table column, and the metadata type RepositoryBase models the metadata for a repository. The SAS Metadata Model defines approximately 160 metadata types.
namespace	specifies a group of related metadata types. Namespaces are used to partition metadata into different contexts. The SAS Open Metadata Interface defines two namespaces: SAS and REPOS. The SAS namespace contains metadata types that describe application elements. The REPOS namespace contains metadata types that describe repositories.
metadata object	specifies an instance of a metadata type.
metadata type property	is a term that collectively refers to the attributes and associations that are defined for a metadata type in the SAS Metadata Model. An attribute describes a characteristic of the metadata type. An association describes a relationship between an object of this metadata type and an object of another metadata type.