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 a term for data that describes the attributes of another set of data. Metadata can determine much of what you encounter online, from the top search results returned in Google to the ...

You, as a decision maker or implementer, are frequently bombarded with the message that the data in your organization is its lifeblood. In the modern digital age, that data has immense value to your ...

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 ...

More proof, if proof were needed, of the privacy-stripping power of metadata. A multi-year crowdsourced study, conducted by Stanford scientists and published this week, underlines how much information ...

Small businesses can create, collect and store a hefty amount of data, from daily transactions made in point-of-sale systems to inventory logged once shipments are received. Many of these data points ...

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