Organizations often grow into metadata problems, rather than out of them. IT departments invest time and effort into data management to ensure data quality, security and availability. These practices ...

"Metadata" is one of those techy buzzwords you'll frequently hear in the discourse surrounding internet privacy, storage, and social media. There's an array of applications of metadata — a few of ...

The word “metadata” may have entered the public consciousness when President Obama uttered it, in response to Edward Snowden’s revelations about the National Security Agency. But that does not mean it ...

When it comes to discovery of mobile devices, it’s not just the data that’s important for discovery, but also the data about the data – the metadata – that can be used to authenticate evidence, to ...

This month, we will begin a two-part series on metadata and MXF. First, we will look at the importance of metadata to the professional media facility. Then, we will look at some of the specifics of ...

Metadata are data that describes data and are everywhere (we just don’t always notice them). Examples of metadata that you might be familiar with are: a book’s author a journal’s publisher an ...

Organizations generate metadata so quickly that it's turning into today's big data challenge. However, the best way and location to store all this information is not always clear. Much depends on how ...