You will often see our team members in the exhibit hall or on a stage
talking about metadata and other important topics.
The first article
about metadata in general and most important metadata guidelines is available here.
These days, it's not uncommon for self - published authors to know
more about metadata and how to market a work than publishers do.
So there was a lot of
hype about our metadata at that time, but I really don't think it made any difference in the end.
All of these scenarios sound like big projects for a digital marketing team, but actually it's
all about metadata — enhanced metadata to be exact.
You can take a photo of the memo and attach as a picture if you are
worried about metadata in a PDF or Word file.
Renée is co-author of The Metadata Handbook with Thad McIlroy, who I interviewed
here about metadata for authors and small publishers.
If you don't know the first
thing about metadata, check out our series «Metadata 101» for more information.
Page said that publishers need to radically rethink their business models: they need to rethink structural roles and organizational roles, rethink the text creation workflow, think about the long tail and get digitizing as much as possible, be
clear about metadata (the Faber Metadata meeting is apparently Page's new favorite meeting), put much greater resource into legal, ensure that contracts are airtight and become «experts» in pricing issues.
As I have been preparing my presentation for Digital Asset Management Chicago 2011, I have been thinking quite a
bit about metadata and how publishers manage it.
I think the technical writing community can teach the publishing industry a
lot about metadata, a lot about taxonomies, a lot about the deep information that you have, and the capabilities that you have to draw that information out and to give people more data as they read.
In the series, we talk
about metadata do's and don'ts; explore some ideas on how to improve sales with better book metadata management; and explain how to enter or edit metadata within your book using Sigil.
As bots and spiders crawl across the web pulling in data and compiling it, as Google scans and organizes the books of the world by algorithm and we
fight about metadata, the thought of one man personally examining and verifying each item in a data base of this size approaches the level of science fiction.
; 2) «I don't
care about the metadata, what is important is the content of the document»; 3) «Why do you want virtual documents if the opposing party is willing to give you these (22) boxes of binders?»
The differences indicate that Facebook is misleading consumers on the timeliness of the prompt and gives users the impression that the company was
transparent about its metadata gathering policies all along.
No lawyer with half a brain plugs electronic evidence into his or her own computer and pokes around because, by now, most lawyers
know about metadata, and appreciate that they can alter evidence simply by browsing it.
Lawyers today are
concerned about metadata and not transmitting same to another lawyer or their own client when they electronically send a document.
The sandbox is prepopulated with 100 MB of data so that lawyers can
learn about metadata, de-duplication and other aspects of e-discovery.
A final note on organizing your media for Plex: if you've used or are currently using another media center software (like XBMC), don't
worry about your metadata.
No, we aren't talking
about metadata or any Jason Bourne spy type stuff.
There was a lively #eprdctn hour today,
all about metadata.
Their newsletter, BNC eNews, reports on best practices for print and digital publishing, marketing, and distribution, including everything you ever wanted to know
about metadata.
There's a lot of information out there, especially in the self - publishing world,
about metadata and the importance of that.
I'm going to talk
about metadata, foreign markets, cover designers, book promotion, ebook formatting, and a whole slew of other things that will make you better at the business of self - publishing.
Chairman Issa addresses PACER in his summary comments and asks a final question
about metadata.
I should think that law firms should at least know whether their printers are marking up documents with invisible characters, in the same way that they should know
about the metadata that Word and other word processors embed in a document.