Metadata is the key to keeping track of all this unstructured scientific data. It is “data about data.” In the case of scientific data, it is structured data (written in a prescribed schema or order) ...

This presentation is from the CIVICA Research Open Science for the Social Sciences workshop on Metadata and research: abstracts, keywords and research visibility. What data can be best used to ...

This duct-tape approach might pass an audit today, but it won’t survive the rigor of future scrutiny, nor the growing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about AI, big data and data science. One common response from businesspeople to the term “big data” is to think that they ...

NASA has rolled out an upgraded artificial intelligence tool to improve how Earth science datasets are tagged and discovered. The Global Change Master Directory Keyword Recommender (GKR), powered by ...

The former head of the CIA has said "we kill people based on metadata", but as Australia introduces new data retention laws, the country's security chief says he's "not quite sure" what the fuss is ...

DNA-based data storage appears to offer solutions to some of the problems created by humanity’s ever-growing capacity to create data we want to hang on to. Compared to most other media, DNA offers ...