Therefore, in the session at the EDV-Gerichtstag 2009, my colleague suggested to the government that they publish official legal texts on a centralized website — and that those texts should be structured and should contain descriptive metadata, if those metadata appear in the original documents.
You can create image groups which can then be shared with your students, downloaded as jpegs, or exported as PowerPoint files with the metadata conveniently appearing in the notes section below each slide.
More than 60 government agencies are seeking to regain warrantless access to Australians' phone and web metadata, in what appears to be a major pushback after the federal government restricted the number of agencies that could access it.
Some details of the metadata programs soon appeared in the Times, in USA Today, and in a story by Seymour Hersh in this magazine.
On June 11th the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), an advocacy group, sued the government over the surveillance programmes.But both the metadata programme and PRISM appear to be legal.
In a shaky video that appears from its metadata to have been shot early Monday morning in the hotel's Ballroom B, people can be seen lying on mats covered with brightly colored blankets in floral motifs while guards in dark uniforms are visible in the background.
Metadata, which includes text that appears on a page with video files and sometimes "tags" (manually entered by users, as with Del.icio.us and Flickr, both now owned by Yahoo! ), is information that's packaged along with the videos, be it television schedules, network descriptions or keywords used on other Web sites to link to the videos.
This information may appear in the metadata record for the work or in the work itself.
The government in Canberra has agreed to hold a separate hearing into the issues of law enforcement agencies access to journalists' metadata, and news outlets will appear before a parliamentary hearing on 20 March.
In the NSA's defense, it certainly appears that the phone metadata program played an instrumental role in this case.
