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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 ...

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 ...

Metadata is ?structured information that describes, explains, locates, or otherwise makes it easier to retrieve, use, or manage an information resource? (National Information Standards Organisation, ...

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 ...

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 ...