Metadata is the key to keeping track of all this unstructured scientific data. It is “data about data.” In the case of scientific data, it is structured data (written in a prescribed schema or order) ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about AI, big data and data science. One common response from businesspeople to the term “big data” is to think that they ...

This presentation is from the CIVICA Research Open Science for the Social Sciences workshop on Metadata and research: abstracts, keywords and research visibility. What data can be best used to ...

DNA-based data storage appears to offer solutions to some of the problems created by humanity’s ever-growing capacity to create data we want to hang on to. Compared to most other media, DNA offers ...

With the Senate passing the Federal Government’s data retention bill last week, there has been a great deal of discussion of “metadata”, what it is and whether the government ought to have access to ...

In 2019, LinkedIn’s engineering team announced DataHub, a metadata tool it had built to help it organise, search and discover insights from its vast data trove. In 2020, LinkedIn open sourced it. Now, ...

The former head of the CIA has said "we kill people based on metadata", but as Australia introduces new data retention laws, the country's security chief says he's "not quite sure" what the fuss is ...

In the process of gathering data for secondhand use, such as data warehouses and their many variants, organizations picked and chose pieces of data that fit their idea of what was needed to support ...