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"Tagging" is all the rage these days. Got some data? Tag it. Like that picture, tag it. The idea is simple: tag things with terms that are meaningful to you, and later, you can search for those tags ...

Last year, with help from The New York Times and Twitter, Adobe started working on the Content Authenticity Initiative, an attempt to cut down on the number of altered images that circulate online.

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The National Archives and Records Administration—the keepers of all government records—manages millions of digital records. But users ...

Over the years my music collection has grown to a giant mess of competing informal standards on top of ID3 to handle tagging situations that it doesn't seem as though ID3 was designed to handle.

Philadelphia, PA, July 22, 2014 – Nearly 6 in 10 learning resource providers (58%) are now tagging their resources with metadata, according to a new survey published by the Learning Resource Metadata ...

At its most basic level, metadata is about 5W1H—the who, what, where, when, why, and how of a data set, object, or resource (such as an article, a book, or a journal). Gathering these basic bits of ...

Aside from convenience, the great thing about using an iPhone as your primary camera is the sheer quantity of metadata captured with each image. In addition to date and time, you’ll always know where ...

The streaming revolution has unlocked boundless opportunities for content creators and distributors, but it’s also created a new kind of chaos. As libraries expand across geographies, platforms and ...

David Julian Gray is NPR’s senior product manager, content production. Before the coronavirus crisis hit, he was preparing to lead an NAB Show session about radio metadata including the value ...