What is metadata in REST API?

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Tags

1. #retrieve
2. #version
3. #entities
4. #datasets
5. #additions
6. #reflected
7. #streams
8. #versions
9. #delete
10. #annotations
11. #applications
12. #metadata
13. #other
14. #restful