In the best tradition of educators who manage to be both entertaining and enlightening, Duke sociology professor Kieran Healy has posted “Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere”—a fascinating ...

The recent success of the European Space Agency (ESA) sending the Rosetta probe in orbit around a comet, and the more bittersweet successful landing of the Philae lander has made me nostalgic for the ...

How come the NSA knows who I spoke to last Nov. 10 at 11 a.m. and for how long, yet I can’t find the phone number of a colleague I called last night? It’s simple -- metadata. CNN defines metadata ...

On basic practices to ensure the accessibility and search optimization of websites, federal pages, have — on average — earned an F, according to a new scoring system. The results indicate that despite ...

Earlier in 2023, we discussed The Importance of Metadata here in the DBA Corner column. And, indeed, metadata is more important than ever before because it helps us to understand our data. Data ...

Windows Vista will improve search functionality on a PC by letting users tag files with metadata, but those tags could cause unwanted and embarrassing information disclosure, Gartner analysts have ...