Users and enterprises often post documents, PDFs and other seemingly innocent files to their websites without so much as a second thought toward the security implications. Unfortunately, this leaves ...

What if the key to unlocking smarter, faster, and more precise data retrieval lay hidden in the metadata of your documents? Imagine querying a vast repository of technical manuals, only to be ...

Metadata is an interesting -- and often unrealized -- problem for anyone who uses office applications, like Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, and Adobe Acrobat.I've written about it before because its ...

Modern file formats have provisions to annotate the contents of the file with descriptive information. This development is driven by the need to find a better way to organize data than merely by using ...

To make reams of information useful, businesses need to find, organize and compare it. That’s where metadata management comes in. Jennifer Zaino is a New York-based freelance writer specializing in ...