Streaming is an actively evolving technology, writes Wheatstone's Rick Bidlack, and the queen of streaming, metadata, will ...

Twitter’s full data stream–their “firehose”–is a very detailed thing. Access to raw tweet upon raw tweet lets brands know what customers think and allows first responders to instantly tabulate ...

When it comes to discovery of mobile devices, it’s not just the data that’s important for discovery, but also the data about the data – the metadata – that can be used to authenticate evidence, to ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This month, we will begin a two-part series on metadata and MXF. First, we will look at the ...

Media management, storage systems and video servers all employ varying degrees of metadata to keep track of the assets stored on their systems. Metadata is essential to the success of file-based ...

We’ve never even tried to obtain metadata from a government agency, and now the Arizona Court of Appeals tells us we can’t have them. What the hell are metadata, anyway? (And isn’t it annoying they ...

Companies spend millions of dollars to get an edge from the data they own. However, all too often their efforts are out of balance. Data is hoarded without a clear purpose, and not nearly enough time ...

The term "data" is the plural for datum, or a single piece of raw factual information. Metadata is data about data, or information that describes data. Americans encounter metadata of all types daily.