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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.

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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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Build a Cloud-First Content Management Strategy in Three Simple Steps

AIIM

Those who had already adopted and implemented a cloud-first strategy sat smugly in the stands. Benefits of a Cloud-First Data Management Strategy. To achieve a successful and optimized migration to a cloud content management platform, you need a robust data management strategy. Step 1: Improve Content Metadata.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.