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 we talk and write about IT issues, we use certain words to mean many different things: “Platform,” “architecture,” and “integration” are among the worst offenders. But the most overloaded term in ...

Metadata has been a popular topic for several years, but in many cases, the discussions have fallen short. Frequently, the topic of preserving metadata during file transfer is discussed, but this use ...

Today, nobody argues about the importance of data. It is a given that data must be collected, managed, and analyzed to conduct business successfully in the modern era. But all too often the meaning of ...

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 ...

Metadata seems to be talked about a lot more now. Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, mentioned it five times since 2018 on earnings calls. In 2024's call, he called it out 26 times. So what is the ...