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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. To avoid this, organizations should develop a metadata strategy. How to Identify Metadata. Three Steps to Determine Metadata.

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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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Identifying People by Metadata

Schneier on Security

Interesting research: " You are your Metadata: Identification and Obfuscation of Social Media Users using Metadata Information ," by Beatrice Perez, Mirco Musolesi, and Gianluca Stringhini. Abstract: Metadata are associated to most of the information we produce in our daily interactions and communication in the digital world.

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Metadata Left in Security Agency PDFs

Schneier on Security

In this paper, we analyze hidden data found in the PDF files published by an organization. Unfortunately, most organizations are unaware that these documents can compromise sensitive information like authors names, details on the information system and architecture.

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Speaking of: The Paper Clip’s Digital Equivalent

Weissman's World

In the physical world, paper clips are an important source of context, as their use suggests that the pieces of paper they clip together are somehow related. And what does this mean in terms of identifying how many documents those pieces of paper represent, the relative importance of the […].

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Evaluating the NSA's Telephony Metadata Program

Schneier on Security

Interesting analysis: " Examining the Anomalies, Explaining the Value: Should the USA FREEDOM Act's Metadata Program be Extended? " Abstract: The telephony metadata program which was authorized under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, remains one of the most controversial programs launched by the U.S. by Susan Landau and Asaf Lubin.

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Transitioning to a Fully Digital Government

National Archives Records Express

While NARA recently published 36 CFR 1236 providing instructions to digitize paper records, this regulation should not be used to continue paper-based business processes. Agencies should review their business processes, specifically identifying those that still involve paper records.