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 ...

Twitter’s full data stream–their “firehose”–is a very detailed thing. Access to raw tweet upon raw tweet lets brands know what customers think and allows first responders to instantly tabulate ...

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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 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 ...

We’ve never even tried to obtain metadata from a government agency, and now the Arizona Court of Appeals tells us we can’t have them. What the hell are metadata, anyway? (And isn’t it annoying they ...

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 ...

Additional data or information that can be appended to a crypto transaction on a blockchain is referred to as metadata in blockchain transactions. Metadata is data about data. In the context of ...