The Dag Hammarskjöld Library is celebrating the milestone of creating over one million bibliographic metadata units in the UN Digital Library, its online catalogue. Every year, the UN generates ...

Metadata is becoming increasingly important for all media companies due to its improved consistency, data quality and cost efficiency When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Since the 1960s, academic libraries have been using their own standards for the communication of metadata about resources in their catalogs. Originally designed for magnetic tape-based computers, ...

Many libraries are eagerly digitizing their materials and making them accessible online. This enthusiasm often stems from patrons, who are excited to make use of the resources on the internet, or from ...

An MP3 file contains not only the actual song, but also categorical information—metadata—about that song: name, artist, album and so on. (It can also contain album art, as we discussed last week.) ...

DuckDB Labs recently released DuckLake 1.0, a data lake format that stores table metadata in a SQL database rather than ...

Metadata isn’t just technical jargon — it’s the key to making open access books and resources truly findable and usable. From global recommendations to hands-on best practices, libraries, publishers, ...

In 2021, Gartner dropped Metadata Management from their Magic Quadrant, replacing it with a Market Guide for Active Metadata Management. On the surface, this may seem like a minor change, but in ...

A well-organized Plex library isn’t just about neat folders — it’s about precise metadata, correct artwork, and consistent naming. With the right setup, you can avoid mismatches, speed up scanning, ...