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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mountains of data are being collected on you, and much of it is beyond your grasp. kris krüg/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND With the Senate passing the Federal Government’s data retention bill last week, there ...

Many libraries are eagerly digitizing their materials and making them accessible online. This enthusiasm often stems from patrons, who are excited to make use of the resources on the internet, or from ...

Companies spend millions of dollars to get an edge from the data they own. However, all too often their efforts are out of balance. Data is hoarded without a clear purpose, and not nearly enough time ...