One special kind of metadata is the object ID. These are short, registered, searchable, codes used to identify media files. Examples of these are Ad-ID (spot ID, tracking), EIDR (movies, TV pgms) and ...

An attribute is a description of another attribute. As an example of metadata, for a document, information such as the author, file size, and date of creation may be included as well as descriptive ...

Tagit lets you add metadata tags to files for easy searching, either through Tagit itself or other apps that are compatible with the OpenMeta tagging standard.

Files cannot be reliably identified without it, and for post production, in some cases it may be difficult or impossible to reliably determine how video was manipulated compared to the original source ...

After installing libextractor, the extract tool can be used to obtain metadata from documents. By default, the extract tool uses a canonical set of plugins, which consists of all file-format-specific ...

(For example, you can have iFlicks simply update metadata, allowing you to choose where to put a file later.) My use of iFlicks is a bit of an edge case.

Reviews Review: Document Metadata Cleaner strips personally identifiable metadata from your files By Mark O'Neill Feb 11, 2013 12:59 pm PST At a Glance Expert's Rating ...

A study by Workshare, a company focused on secure file sharing applications, says that 68 percent of the 800 professionals surveyed failed to remove metadata before sharing documents. Due to this ...