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 ...

Big Data is making life increasingly complicated for lawyers. In ediscovery, a big part of the challenge is simply eliminating duplicate copies of stuff – emails, Word documents, spreadsheets, files, ...

The term "data" is the plural for datum, or a single piece of raw factual information. Metadata is data about data, or information that describes data. Americans encounter metadata of all types daily.

Modern file formats have provisions to annotate the contents of the file with descriptive information. This development is driven by the need to find a better way to organize data than merely by using ...

What is Metadata and Where is it Stored? Metadata is information that is not readily apparent from the face of an electronic file. [1] Described broadly, metadata is “data which provides information ...

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File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so – but ...

I got to wondering today, if there was any image format, maybe binary black/white, or greyscale, or even color, that is just raw pixels, with no metadata. Even BMP, while it has pretty minimal ...