Overview

Metadata is crucial for delivering data products that users can easily understand. Rich Data Services has the ability to return the knowledge, or metadata, along side the data that is selected. Variable names, labels, descriptions, classifications, codes, categories, and much more can be accessed in the same query as the data. 

Retrieving Metadata

• To access the metadata for a query we will begin with a simple select query.

• Add the metadata parameter to the query

   http://{host}/rds/api/catalog/{collection}/{view}/select?metadata

  
  

• This will return the data along with variable and classification metadata for any variable specified by the select query.