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Keeping track of all your data -- where it's been, where it's going, who accesses it, and what they do with it -- is neither fun nor exciting. But it is a necessary substrate for holistic data ...

Metadata is a term for data that describes the attributes of another set of data. Metadata can determine much of what you encounter online, from the top search results returned in Google to the ...

What if the key to unlocking smarter, faster, and more precise data retrieval lay hidden in the metadata of your documents? Imagine querying a vast repository of technical manuals, only to be ...