<citerefentry><refentrytitle>syslog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
call, from standard input and standard error of system
services or via its native API. It will implicitly
- collect numerous meta data fields for each log
+ collect numerous metadata fields for each log
messages in a secure and unfakeable way. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.journal-fields</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- for more information about the collected meta data.
+ for more information about the collected metadata.
</para>
<para>Log data collected by the journal is primarily