huggingface / huggingface/datasets

Metadata for each column

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Description

### Feature request

Being able to put some metadata for each column as a string or any other type.

### Motivation

I will bring the motivation by an example, lets say we are experimenting with embedding produced by some image encoder network, and we want to iterate through a couple of preprocessing and see which one works better in our downstream task, here as workaround right now what I do is the compute the hash of the preprocessing that the images went through as part of the new columns name, it would be nice to attach some kinda meta data in these scenarios to the each columns. metadata

### Your contribution

Maybe we could map another relational like database as the metadata?

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