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, ...

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.) ...

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, ...

I’m in the process of importing five years of photos into iCloud Photo Library following an upgrade to the $0.99/month iCloud plan, and I wanted to share a quick tip about the experience. I wanted to ...