The acquired assets include FireAnt's technology, particularly their desktop media player for Windows and Mac, as well as FireAnt's database of feeds and metadata.
Remember last November, when Democrats and a few Republicans were getting ready to pass legislation that would have made it more difficult for the NSA to acquire the metadata of Americans' telephone calls?
Alexander said he would be at the White House on Tuesday to discuss proposed changes to the NSA's mass collection of US phone records, less than a week after he seemed to soften his opposition to the NSA acquiring only metadata related to terrorism.
Kollar-Kotelly ruled that acquiring the metadata, and not the content, of email and internet usage in bulk was harmonious with the "purpose" of Congress and prior court rulings – even though no surveillance statute ever authorized it and top officials at the justice department and the FBI threatened to resign in 2004 over what they considered its dubious legality.
The second persistent identifier [27] is assigned using the DataCite API [28], and serves as a mechanism to allow DataCite to acquire the metadata for this entry.
GIFT harnesses and manages geospatial metadata acquired during recording time and intelligently indexes field of views (FOVs) to deal with large volumes of data.
General metadata related to the paleomagnetic and chronological data include: 1. the source of the data, e.g., the publication or compilation the data were acquired from; 2. the geographical location of archeological or volcanic materials; 3.
The Network will develop guidelines for data formats, metadata (descriptions of how the data were acquired), standards, quality control measures and other key data-related issues.
A multi-step process was developed to create LAGOSLIMNO, the site-level data module containing water quality information; steps included identifying and contacting data providers, acquiring the data, creating metadata, manipulating and importing data into LAGOSLIMNO, developing QAQC procedures, and exporting the data for statistical modeling and analysis.
Also, only authorized users are allowed to place and acquire sensitive security metadata in the cloud.
Metadata has been obtained for the most suitable available datasets, and the majority of them have been acquired for the Hub's use.
