Metadata is the key to keeping track of all this unstructured scientific data. It is “data about data.” In the case of scientific data, it is structured data (written in a prescribed schema or order) ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about AI, big data and data science. One common response from businesspeople to the term “big data” is to think that they ...

This presentation is from the CIVICA Research Open Science for the Social Sciences workshop on Metadata and research: abstracts, keywords and research visibility. What data can be best used to ...

DNA-based data storage appears to offer solutions to some of the problems created by humanity’s ever-growing capacity to create data we want to hang on to. Compared to most other media, DNA offers ...

CCI's Metadata Research Center (MRC) advances research in metadata, semantics and ontologies. Current MRC research initiatives target digital data, data-at-risk, and knowledge organization via ...

In an article published in the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, a multi-center research team discusses how they hope to fill a significant gap in the documentation and ...

The former head of the CIA has said "we kill people based on metadata", but as Australia introduces new data retention laws, the country's security chief says he's "not quite sure" what the fuss is ...