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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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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This month, we will begin a two-part series on metadata and MXF. First, we will look at 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 ...

One of the biggest hurdles in implementing an effective Content Management application is to establish a usable Metadata Model. Having a repository of data that users cannot search and access ...

Metadata, or descriptive data, as the name implies, contain information about the data. Typical metadata include the name of the data, the creators, the time of creation, the data type, the ...

From the Spring 2011 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 17. A federal court in New York… From the Spring 2011 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 17. A federal court in New York City ruled in ...