ANNOTATIONS.md

# Overview

Metabase allows you to optionally annotation the data in your database or datawarehouse. These annotations provide metabase with an understanding of what the data actually means and allows it to more intelligently process and display it for you. When discussing metadata, we generally refer to several main types


# Types of Metadata

## Tables

### Table type

A table can be marked as 


## Fields

A field is a representation of either a Column (when using a SQL based database, like PostgreSQL) or a field in a document (when using a document or json based database like MongoDB). Where possible, 


### Database Representation

This refers to how the basic representation of the field in the database. 

### Basic Types

### Semantic Types