Metadata is a term for data that describes the attributes of another set of data. Metadata can determine much of what you encounter online, from the top search results returned in Google to the ...

Spotlight is Apple's smart search indexer for macOS. Here's how to use its metadata utilities to get more information about your documents. Spotlight runs in the background on your Mac or iOS device ...

CEO and Co-Founder of one of the first data intelligence platforms, BigID, and a privacy, security, and identity expert. Metadata is the lifeblood of modern data management — it's the key to being ...

Content indexing works well for finding files that contain text, but it's no help when searching for non-text data. Brien's workaround is to take advantage of Windows 10's file metadata feature. As ...

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Attributes are a powerful feature in the C# programming language that can add metadata information to your assemblies. An attribute is actually an object that is associated with any of these elements: ...