The Dag Hammarskjöld Library is celebrating the milestone of creating over one million bibliographic metadata units in the UN Digital Library, its online catalogue. Every year, the UN generates ...

Since the 1960s, academic libraries have been using their own standards for the communication of metadata about resources in their catalogs. Originally designed for magnetic tape-based computers, ...

In the face of a highly competitive industry and ongoing competitive nature of the industry, media companies today are strongly incentivized to make use of their archive content. However, many have ...

An MP3 file contains not only the actual song, but also categorical information—metadata—about that song: name, artist, album and so on. (It can also contain album art, as we discussed last week.) ...

In Office 365 (SharePoint Online) and SharePoint 2016, when you upload a single document to a library with metadata, you are not prompted to enter the metadata values unless at least one field is ...

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 ...

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 ...