Digital Asset Management

5 Tips for Advanced Metadata Management.

Metadata Management is the process of ensuring that all metadata associated with a digital asset is captured, organized, stored and made available for use by and within other applications. Metadata Management begins at the moment the digital asset is created by an application or captured by digital imaging.

Okay, so that’s my “in a nutshell” definition of Metadata Management. But let’s take a step back to the beginning,
and solve some of these mysteries of metadata. First of all, what is metadata? Well, according to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary; meta·da·ta a noun plural but singular or plural in construction : data that provides information about
other data.…in other words, data about data as it refers to an electronic or digital file. Metadata is critical in ensuring that your digital assets will be accessible far into the future.Now, I suppose you may be wondering how

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