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GUEST ESSAY: Going beyond watermarks to protect sensitive documents from illegal access

The Last Watchdog

They also enrich documents with metadata and place them in crypto-containers, access to which is only granted by permission. However, all of these solutions are powerless when it comes to photographing a document with a smartphone and compromising printed copies of documents. Demyanchuk. Yes, they are cheap to apply.

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What is metadata management and why is it important?

Collibra

Metadata management is a cross-organizational agreement on how to define informational assets for converting data into an enterprise asset. As data volumes and diversity grow, metadata management is even more critical to derive business value from the gigantic amounts of data. . What is Metadata? Again, a partial definition. .

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Paradata: Documentation for Responsible Artificial Intelligence

AIIM

Learn about paradata and how it can be used for documenting AI processes. This special guest blog post was authored by:

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Data Governance and Metadata Management: You Can’t Have One Without the Other

erwin

When an organization’s data governance and metadata management programs work in harmony, then everything is easier. Creating and sustaining an enterprise-wide view of and easy access to underlying metadata is also a tall order. Metadata Management Takes Time. Finding metadata, “the data about the data,” isn’t easy.

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Clearing Up the Confusion between Document Management Systems and Digital Preservation Systems

Preservica

To celebrate this year's Electronic Records Day on October 10th, guest authors Pari Swift, Jacqueline Johnson, and the Ohio Records Committee share their thoughts on the key differences between document management systems and digital preservation systems in this blog post. Read on to learn more about these two types of systems.

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Revenge of the Metadata Nerds

AIIM

Thankfully, auto-classification and the automatic linking of document types to retention periods are taking information governance out of the hands of individual end users, who always resented the Nick Burns of the world telling them that they should somehow find time to “care” about records management. Revenge of the metadata nerds!

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How Metadata Makes Data Meaningful

erwin

Metadata is an important part of data governance, and as a result, most nascent data governance programs are rife with project plans for assessing and documenting metadata. But in many scenarios, it seems that the underlying driver of metadata collection projects is that it’s just something you do for data governance.