The metadata, which are administrative (contact), technical (data processing, software used) and biological (sample), are captured by using controlled vocabulary terms, to support systematic search across data sets.
In the low-bit-rate version, only one omnidirectional signal is transmitted along with the spatial metadata, which is used as the signal that is processed and applied to all the reproduction loudspeakers.
However, the value of microarray datasets is largely dependent on the completeness and accuracy of the associated metadata, which is reliant on diligent reporting by researchers and accurate representation on submission (Rung and Brazma, 2012).
It is the untargeted collection of metadata – which is often mislabelled as innocuous because it's not the direct content of messages – that poses the greater threat to journalism as a whole.
This Semantic MediaWiki-based database is intended for managing metadata, which is the detailed information on experimental procedures accompanying the generation of data.
Just as bad, SMS messages leak metadata, which is information about the message but not the contents of the message itself, such as the phone number of the sender and the recipient, which can identify the people involved in the conversation.
What the proposal specifically relates to is "metadata", which is considered be information that does not include the contents of a communication.
The guide was developed with two external startups: URIplay (who featured in a Google Tech Talk in April), the open source database of media content metadata which is used on top of the BBC's own /programmes information; and Two Worlds' device-aware technology, which came out of the BBC's Innovation Lab in Scotland last year.
This study obviously brings up some pretty clear privacy concerns, especially when GPS coordinates and log-in data are classified as metadata, which is what the government has been 'legally' siphoning through its bulk data collection of Americans' cell phone calls for years.
Does the Fourth Amendment extend to Internet metadata, which is data about data?
