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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

A picture may be worth 1,000 words, but what if a picture could contain 1,000 words? Now, you can easily embed astronomy-related information into your photos with FITS Liberator. Digital-camera users ...

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 ...

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 ...