Some metadata can be modified while editing a file, like specifying an author's name; other metadata is automatically set by the computer'soperating systemor thesoftwarecreating the file, like a file creation date. Most modernfile systemsuse anindexof file metadata for file searches. This index...
Metadata management is the business discipline of managing the metadata about data. It gives meaning to and describes the information assets in your organization.
One of the more popular uses of meta today is for the meaning best described by the formula “meta-X equals X about X.” So, if we take the word “data” for our X, and add the prefix meta- to it, we get metadata, or “data about data.” A meta-text is a text about texts...
Administrative metadata is technical in nature. It contains information on how to open and run the file, including info like the file’s format. This type of metadata is present in almost all files and is read by your device and the software or app you use to run the file. In some ins...
Of course, when I write metadata I meanActive Directory Replication Metadata. The Metadata series will describe various scenarios where the use of the metadata can help understanding what happened in an Active Directory forest. Metadata #1 - When did the delegation change? How to track secur...
You’ve probably heard the term 'metadata' before, and may have asked yourself either "what is metadata?" or "why is it as important as data?"
As every organisation does it slightly differently, Prometheus allows you to configure how metadata from service discovery is mapped to monitoring targets and their labels usingrelabelling. Scraping Service discovery and relabelling give us a list of targets to be monitored. Now Prometheus needs to ...
analysis. The source data layer is the physical database or the data lake. TheKyvos universal semantic layeris a unified data layer of abstraction built on the source data where all the metadata is defined so that the model gets enriched and becomes simple enough for the business...
Query the catalog: if a data catalog is powered by a true knowledge graph, you should be able to query all your metadata. If you can’t, then your data catalog isn’t powered by a knowledge graph.In this post I will get into the technical details of what those three points ...
Enterprise-class capabilities.Your data is important, and you need enterprise-class capabilities to use it properly, such as identity and access management, and main capabilities via REST APIs. This would also mean that customers and partners can contribute metadata (such as custom harvesters) and ...