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Metadata: (1) (meta-data) Data that describes other data. The term may refer to detailed compilations such as data dictionaries and repositories that provide a substantial amount of information about...; Full Metadata Definition >>

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Remove tell-tale metadata from Microsoft apps: When you send a Word document to a client or a co-worker, you are also sending metadata - info about the document - as well. You can easily include embarrassing comments, hidden text or info helpful to hackers. Here's how to get rid of it. Start with...; Tags: Metadata, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2007-12-17
QuoteURLText: Firefox extension that will copy the selected text to the clipboard including the metadata about the page. Quote URL text is an extension that will let you copy the selection you made to the clipboard including metadata about the Web page (page title, location, and date of copy). This version...; Tags: Metadata, Extension, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing; Software downloads 2007-12-17
Control metadata in Your Legal Documents: In Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, certain types of hidden information are automatically saved as one works on files, mainly to help one locate the files later by using built-in search tools. This hidden information is often referred to as metadata - or data about data. The topic of metadata has...; Tags: Metadata, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Litigation, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Search, Productivity, Office Suites, Software, Business Operations; White papers 2007-12-01
metadata Analyzer (1setup): Metadata can get you into trouble. Whenever an MS Office document is created it is complemented with such properties as the author, corporate name, document changes, editing time, and other metadata. All this makes the private information available to a third party that may put your company at financial risk...; Tags: Metadata, Microsoft Office, Financial Accounting, Office Suites, Software, Finance; Software downloads 2007-11-13
Polar SWF metadata (exe): You can now include metadata within your Flash movies (SWF files). By adding a title and description to your Flash document, search engines have the potential to index more of your Flash content on the Web. Polar SWF meta data is a revolutionary and an unprecedented software for it enables...; Tags: Metadata, Search, Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Management; Software downloads 2007-11-06

The next big thing: User-contributed metadata: We know all about user-generated content, masses of users contributing to burgeoning Web corpus. It's a manifestation of Web 2.0, the participatory Net, which companies like Google (YouTube), Yahoo (Flickr), Fox (MySpace), etc. are feasting on. In parallel, users are contributing a potentially far more lucrative...; Tags: Metadata, Web, Facebook, Advertisement, Metaweb, Radar Networks, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-10-29
MozCC (4): Provides an interface for viewing metadata embedded in Web pages, including Creative Commons licenses. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Creative Commons, Metadata, Channel Management, Marketing; Software downloads 2007-10-15
Migratr (msi): This photo management tool lets you upload and download photos between various online photo-sharing sites. Supported sites include: Flickr, 23HQ, SmugMug, Faces.com, and Picasaweb. Metadata is transferred along with the photos, including tags, title, description, and album organization. Version 0.8 adds Faces.com support, "bulk uploading" mode from the hard drive...; Tags: Metadata, Photograph, Photo-sharing; Software downloads 2007-09-17
The Electronic Project: Effectively Using metadata Throughout the Project Life Cycle: The rapid, reliable, and cost-effective production of FDA deliverables is the Holy Grail of pharmaceutical companies and Contract Research Organizations (CROs). Difficult to achieve in a "Calm" environment, they become even more problematic as statisticians, programmers, and project managers edge closer to the maelstrom that is the submission date. The...; Tags: Metadata, SAS Institute, Federal Government, Development Tools, Government, Software Development, Software/Web Development; White papers 2007-05-14
Exifer (exe): Exifer is a software with which you can manage the metadata (EXIF/IPTC) of pictures taken by digital cameras. Often image processing software destroys metadata when saving files, with Exifer you can create a backup of the metadata before editing it in any software, and restore it back into the processed...; Tags: Metadata, Exifer, Tools & Techniques, Management; Software downloads 2007-02-05
Authoring and Annotation of Web Pages in CREAM: Richly interlinked, machine-understandable data constitute the basis for the Semantic Web. The paper provides a framework, CREAM, that allows for creation of metadata. While the annotation mode of CREAM allows to create metadata for existing web pages, the authoring mode lets authors create metadata - almost for free - while...; Tags: Metadata, Web, Web Page, Semantic Web, Strategy, Internet, Management; White papers 2007-01-01
DocDoku (exe): DocDoku is a powerful tool which helps you create organize and share your own document repository. DocDoku features: MetaData; Document Links; Version Control; Workflow; Rich Client; No Deployment; Ease of Use; and Seamless Desktop Integration.; Tags: Metadata, Repository, Ease Of Use, Docdoku, Productivity; Software downloads 2006-12-11
Semantics, metadata and Identifying Master Data: One of the most challenging aspects of a Master Data Management (MDM) is defining what constitutes "Master data." Master data may be found across the application environment, but it's up to the business analyst or data steward to determine which data to include in the final repository. This white paper...; Tags: Metadata, SAS Institute; White papers 2006-11-15
Power Tab Librarian (zip): Power Tab Librarian is a tool used to catalogue your Power Tab guitar and bass tablature. The software scans user selected folders for Power Tab files, extracts the metadata (Title, Artist, Album) and places the information in a database where it can be easily searched and edited.; Tags: Metadata, Librarian, Power Tab Librarian, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Databases, Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Software downloads 2006-09-20
metadata exposes government secrets: Microsoft Word might be easy to use and feature-rich but goverment employees who use it for sensitive documents may well be publishing redacted, restricted or even classified information. Word keeps all previous revisions, metadata on everyone who edited, and through Track Changes a record of every letter cut from the...; Tags: Microsoft Word, metadata; Blog posts 2006-04-13
GCN's Temin on the metadata problem and switching to Web services model: Government Computer News editor Tom Temin answered questions in an online discussion on the Washington Post today, following the close of the FOSE show. Some of the more interesting exchanges centered on proprietary lock-in and problems with redacted material being preserved in metadata. Here is a few of...; Tags: Tom Temin, metadata, Tom; Blog posts 2006-03-10
Who needs metadata anyway?: The government is infamous for deploying heavy-handed metadata regimes. But Google returns pretty darn good results from millions of pages that are largely metadata-free - they certainly boast no structured metadata. Perhaps, federal government managers wondered last fall, the government could save bazillions by jettisoning metadata costs entirely. OMB...; Tags: metadata; Blog posts 2006-01-11
BWAV Reader (sit): This application will read metadata embedded in AES/EBU PCM and some MPEG format, Broadcast Wave files or BWAV files, it will also display any available audio format information. It will also attempt to play the file.; Tags: Metadata, MPEG, Digital Video, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics; Software downloads 2005-12-01
BWAV Reader (zip): This application will read metadata embedded in EBU PCM and some MPEG format Broadcast Wave files, it will also display any available audio format information. Including nuber of channels and timcode start frame if available. It will also attempt to play the file.; Tags: Metadata, MPEG, Digital Video, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics; Software downloads 2005-11-30
Time is on our side: When Dare Obasanjo and Jason McCabe Calacanis come out swinging against forward motion in attention, you know something important is happening. Both are important figures in this reboot we're calling Web 2.0, and their concerns should be examined carefully. Dare has been critical of attention in the past primarily because...; Tags: Dare, Google Inc., metadata; Blog posts 2005-11-20