"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 ...

In 2021, Gartner dropped Metadata Management from their Magic Quadrant, replacing it with a Market Guide for Active Metadata Management. On the surface, this may seem like a minor change, but in ...

When we talk about preserving and digitising cultural heritage, most people picture the art and objects that make up a museum’s collections. Certainly, these works are vital signifiers of both our ...

Policies and procedures aren't enough to properly manage large amounts of metadata. Organizations must find the metadata management tool that best fits their goals and needs. Metadata is data that ...

Earlier in 2023, we discussed The Importance of Metadata here in the DBA Corner column. And, indeed, metadata is more important than ever before because it helps us to understand our data. Data ...

A review of top-secret NSA documents suggests that the surveillance agency still collects and sifts through large quantities of Americans' online data – despite the Obama administration's insistence ...

Image metadata is text information pertaining to an image file that is embedded into the file or saved to a separate file that is associated with the image file. This information describes the image ...