Blog posts and short videos on metadata, accessibility from an A/V perspective.

DCAT is an RDF vocabulary designed to facilitate interoperability between data catalogs published on the Web.       This document defines the schema and provides examples for its use.

Danielle Robichaud Archivists are commonly asked by researchers to produce everything available about a particular topic. While understandable from a researcher standpoint, fulfilling the request i…

This poster describes how we created a set of collection-level metadata for Taiwan’s digital collections, seeking to explore new facets of knowledge organization, facilitating the searching of information for users and the administering of resources for collection managers.

Presentation for the RCA

This post was written by Alice Griffin, who has worked in La MaMa’s Archives since November as the Metadata/Digitization Assistant. She’s leaving La MaMa at the end of July to pursue a …

Most cameras embed hidden information ("metadata") in photographs taken. For privacy's sake, here's how to remove that metadata.

Our ICYMI series provide summaries of presentations, publications, webinars, and other educational opportunities that are of interest to I&A members. We keep a running list of upcoming events. …

The OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group (WAM, of course) was launched last January and has been working hard–really hard–ever since. Twenty-five members from Partner libraries and archives have …

Both Signal and WhatsApp are encrypted, but Signal takes extra steps to keep your chats private.

Despite increasing privacy concerns the tech industry continues to collect and store massive amounts of metadata associated with every digital transaction. These extensive historical accounts of personal or business activities actually live forever and are shared and analyzed outside of user control, becoming a breeding ground for the next wave of cyber risks at all levels.

Privacy protections against government surveillance are often scoped to communications content and exclude communications metadata. In the United States, the National Security Agency operated a particularly controversial program, collecting bulk telephone metadata nationwide. We investigate the privacy properties of telephone metadata to assess the impact of policies that distinguish between content and metadata. We find that telephone metadata is densely interconnected, can trivially be reidentified, enables automated location and relationship inferences, and can be used to determine highly sensitive traits.

Study of phone metadata suggests snoopers can learn a lot

A repository for ISU Metadata & Cataloging Department in-house training materials. - GitHub - isu-meta/Metadata-Training: A repository for ISU Metadata & Cataloging Department in-ho...