When you take a photo on your iPhone, it produces information called metadata and attaches it to your photo. Some of that metadata can be extremely useful for organization purposes, but some can be ...

Metadata is a vital tool for discovering and preserving history. Learn about efforts across the Smithsonian to highlight women’s contributions in American history with accurate metadata in museum ...

The streaming revolution has unlocked boundless opportunities for content creators and distributors, but it’s also created a new kind of chaos. As libraries expand across geographies, platforms and ...

"We use the analogy of the fingerprint," said [MIT professor Yves-Alexandre] de Montjoye in a phone interview today. "In the 1930s, Edmond Locard, one of the first forensic science pioneers, showed ...