Hidden metadata provides useful file information, but it could also endanger the privacy of your clients or employees. Microsoft Word's metadata, or document properties, stores details about files.

I speak with enterprise leaders every day, and from the look of it, there's a rare consensus in the ranks: Modernization is no longer optional if companies wish to avoid extinction. Whether the ...

At its most basic level, metadata is about 5W1H—the who, what, where, when, why, and how of a data set, object, or resource (such as an article, a book, or a journal). Gathering these basic bits of ...

To strip or not to strip? Here's a look at both sides of the argument about the value of embedded metadata. Stripping embedded metadata from digital files may be the most misunderstood technical ...

Metadata isn't like the regular data we know – but the key differences between the two can be hard to figure out. To put it simply, though, metadata is often referred to as data that sorts and ...

Google has coordinated with international standards organizations to show copyright and author information in Google images. The new feature will show on images containing author and copyright ...