The biggest change however will be in the handling of bulk telephone "metadata" stored by the NSA, the programme that has most outraged civil liberties groups in the US.
For example, environmental monitoring networks require information exchange, which has to be supported by an adequate and efficient information platform that handles documentation and exchange of metadata (site descriptions, quality control data), measuring data and geodata.
If this level of flexibility were needed, it can be readily and (relatively) inexpensively handled by maintaining a database of metadata that is derived from the archived study data.
The automated translation of data between the data models and languages used by information ecosystems built around official or de facto standards is best addressed using model-driven engineering techniques, but requires handling both data and multiple levels of metadata within a single model.
The Importance of Metadata Q.
It is a form of metadata.
The compulsory two-year retention of metadata needs stronger safeguards.
Yet the revealing nature of metadata has already been established.
now "produces larger amounts of metadata collection than the N.S.A".
Like that kind of metadata is what excites me.
