Recent news about surveillance of communications metadata has propelled this normally arcane part of the information world to the top of the stack. If you’re interested in learning more about metadata ...

Metadata is the key that unlocks the commercial potential of information, data, and intellectual or creative assets. Metadata matters, because when it comes to content, it’s everything you have.

The chief counsel in CCA 201146017 has given examiners the green light to issue a summons for metadata. I found this disturbing for two reasons. One was just the general principle of the IRS being ...

Metadata is data about data. It tells us who authored a document, when, what the document contains and where the file 'fits' in relation to other data. Metadata is important because it is a key ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (click thumbnail)Metadata Flow: File Elements Include Essence Components and Metadata. Essence ...

Metadata basics -- Syntax, creation, and storage -- Vocabularies, classification, and identifiers -- Approaches to interoperability -- Metadata and the Web -- Library cataloging -- The TEI header -- ...

At its most basic level, metadata is about 5W1H—the who, what, where, when, why, and how of a data set, object, or resource (such as an article, a book, or a journal). Gathering these basic bits of ...

Metaglue's MXFixer is a tool that extracts the essence and metadata from an MXF file, examines the metadata, checks it against known requirements and then rewraps the file. MXFixer has several options ...

To make reams of information useful, businesses need to find, organize and compare it. That’s where metadata management comes in. Jennifer Zaino is a New York-based freelance writer specializing in ...