//
// IMetadata.java
//
/*
OME Bio-Formats package for reading and converting biological file formats.
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*/
package loci.formats.meta;
/**
* A proxy capable of bidirectional communication of biological image data to
* and from a particular storage medium.
*
* <p>The <code>IMetadata</code> interface is a shorthand for a metadata
* storage implementation that handles both storage (see {@link MetadataStore})
* and retrieval (see {@link MetadataRetrieve}) of metadata fields. It exists
* mainly to reduce the need to cast between <code>MetadataStore</code> and
* <code>MetadataRetrieve</code> object types.
*
* <dl><dt><b>Source code:</b></dt>
* <dd><a href="http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/browser/bioformats.git/components/bio-formats/src/loci/formats/meta/IMetadata.java">Trac</a>,
* <a href="http://git.openmicroscopy.org/?p=bioformats.git;a=blob;f=components/bio-formats/src/loci/formats/meta/IMetadata.java;hb=HEAD">Gitweb</a></dd></dl>
*
* @author Curtis Rueden ctrueden at wisc.edu
*/
public interface IMetadata extends MetadataRetrieve, MetadataStore { }