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What is Metadata and Why is it Important?

AIIM

One such tool is Metadata. Metadata offers significant benefits in terms of understanding information in new ways and in being able to leverage that intelligence to drive innovation and the customer experience. What is Metadata? The US Department of Defense has a definition of metadata in its DoD 5015.2

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How to Develop a Metadata Strategy

AIIM

What’s the Importance of a Metadata Strategy? Many organizations use metadata in ways that provide significant business value. Every system uses metadata to store and retrieve data. Take a simple example of an employee name: In one system, it’s “first name last name.”. How to Identify Metadata.

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Digitizing Records: Understanding Metadata Requirements

National Archives Records Express

S49-07-001 – STS-049 – In cabin view of crewmember at the forward flight deck with laptop terminal National Archives Identifier: 22702275 In this blog post, we will explore the key aspects of metadata requirements and their significance in recordkeeping.

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How to Build a Metadata Plan in Five Steps

AIIM

Metadata resides at the center of many of the essential aspects of content management. In addition to helping organize and classify content, Metadata enables good findability, can trigger workflow and transactional processes, reveals document usage patterns and history, and helps establish retention and disposition events.

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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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Malicious file analysis – Example 01

Security Affairs

Cyber Security Specialist Zoziel Pinto Freire shows an example of malicious file analysis presented during his lecture on BSides-Vitória 2022. My objective with this series of articles is to show examples of malicious file analysis that I presented during my lecture on BSides-Vitória 2022. Example: peframe file_name. Pdf-parser.

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Top five metadata management best practices

Collibra

Metadata management is a cross-organizational agreement on how to define informational assets. The first blog of this series discusses how businesses are increasingly realizing the need for metadata management to drive data governance, compliance, collaboration and higher data quality. The importance of metadata. Descriptive.