Metadata is like the secret sauce of the internet. You type a word or phrase in a search engine, press enter, and the information you’re looking for appears (usually). An action that once seemed “indistinguishable from magic,” to quote the third of Arthur C. Clarke’s three laws, is now as commonplace as heating up leftovers in […]
Metadata Management Tools
Metadata management tools are considered an increasingly important part of a data-driven organization’s overall software collection. These tools help businesses make better decisions by providing useful context and insights about their stored data. Metadata management tools can also be used to improve the customer experience and keep customers longer. Additionally, they allow non-technical users to […]
Types of Metadata and How to Manage Them
In recent years, active metadata (as opposed to passive metadata) has promoted the development of new types of metadata and ways to manage them. Metadata is a labeling system that can be read by humans and computers and allows search engines to locate data using defined metadata fields. Passive metadata provides a basic identification system […]
Advances in Metadata Management
With the flood of data that organizations are experiencing, metadata management is no longer optional – it has become a necessity. The concept of metadata management is fairly new because older metadata services, before this rush of data, had no significant problems locating data files. Now they do. Metadata, at its most basic, can be described […]