Is metadata the Information resources that point the user towards data that they are looking for and are organized according to a predefined scheme called?

not quite

metadata is deskribing innformation or define other data.

technical metadata is deskribing the structure of a datasystem for eksample.

or

"the price is $5" where "$5" is data while "the prise" is metadata, cause the "prise" is deskribing what kind of data "$5" is.