Media management, storage systems and video servers all employ varying degrees of metadata to keep track of the assets stored on their systems. Metadata is essential to the success of file-based ...

Modern file formats have provisions to annotate the contents of the file with descriptive information. This development is driven by the need to find a better way to organize data than merely by using ...

Metadata, or descriptive data, as the name implies, contain information about the data. Typical metadata include the name of the data, the creators, the time of creation, the data type, the ...