The phrase "a metadata collection" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a set or group of metadata that has been gathered or compiled for a specific purpose.
Example: "The research team created a metadata collection to analyze the patterns in the data they had gathered over the years."
Alternatives: "a metadata set" or "a metadata repository".
There was no need for a metadata-collection program.
"There was no need for a metadata-collection program," Wright concludes.
It launched a number of counter-measures, including a bulk telephony metadata collection program — a wide net that could find and isolate gossamer contacts among suspected terrorists in an ocean of seemingly disconnected data.
Indeed, the Snowden revelations that have dogged Obama appeared to spook Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who told an American crowd that he's not "a big believer" in metadata collection, "not just because they have a potential to infringe on civil liberty but usually [they] overwhelm you with data in a way that you can't actually process".
The three-judge panel issued its ruling Friday, contending that conservative privacy activist Larry Klayman had not adequately argued the likeliness that his own data had been collected as a part of the metadata collection program.
While the Obama administration and US intelligence agencies last year supported divesting the NSA of its domestic phone metadata collection, a bill to do so failed in November.
As we begin the New Year, here's a short history of metadata collection and the Obama Administration's response to it, as told by an assortment of the most important documents.
Designing a DSpace-based raw data repository will also allow for defining a de facto standardized metadata collection for compchem data description that may be very useful for harmonisation of data description in this specific research area - and might eventually evolve into some kind of standard for the discipline.
Just as intractable a problem for the metadata collection program's challengers is the highly restrictive nature of the rules governing access to FISC proceedings.
