metadata

The University of Technology Sydney campus served as a seat of learning for Australia's music industry on Thursday as the inaugural FastForward conference kicked off. Chris Carey, the British-born entrepreneur, thinker and founder of FastForward, turned on a fire hose of information with a solo-act which ...

LAS VEGAS—The advanced advertising shop co-founded by former Cablevision execs Kristin Dolan and Ben Tatta, 605, has announced a partnership with Silicon Valley-based TV metadata firm Hive to fuse their data collection and analytics tools. The partnership was announced Monday at the NAB ...

The ecosystem will bring together the Netherlands' Bindinc Metadata, Spain's Mediadata TV, France's Plurimedia and Austrian content discovery specialist XroadMedia; users of Piksel's flagship Fuse Metadata Manager and Fuse Publisher products can purchase, ingest and manage localised metadata on ...

Just what data does Facebook collect on you, exactly? Facebook is now spelling it out “in black and white” with proposed updates to the data policy and terms of service. The company says the update doesn't change rights or data access but aims to make the data use more transparent and easier to ...

As you read this, the mass adoption of voice-enabled devices and experiences around the world is accelerating -- with music taking center stage as a growth driver and guinea pig. Overall smart-speaker sales more than tripled year-over-year in 2017, and 60 percent of smart-speaker owners regularly use ...

Metadata can be created manually or it can be generated by an application. Once the metadata is created, it is connected to a file using a processing called “tagging.” How you use metadata will depend on your business needs. But if you tag your data logically, you can scan all your files and search for tags ...

It was software developer Dylan McKay who first discovered that Facebook scraped his call logs and text metadata when he downloaded a copy of his account data under General in Settings. Ars Technica was able to confirm his report, finding similar info in his account after downloading the same ...

Daryl Cox of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com, said EU law makers are set to scrutinise the issue of metadata processing at a meeting on Tuesday at which proposed new EU laws on privacy and electronic communications – a draft e-Privacy Regulation – will be discussed. In advance of ...

Spotify has found a new way to beef up its knowledge about music: The company has begun to solicit music metadata suggestions from its users, asking them to describe genres of albums or moods of songs. “Listeners describe music in different ways, and understanding that information will help improve, ...

TiVo Corporation announced today that Google will use TiVo Music Metadata to provide metadata and images for select artists on Google's music platforms, which includes YouTube Red, YouTube Music and the Google Play Music store. "In addition to the incredible range of our collection, TiVo Music ...

As Online Sales and Metadata Manager, your role will be to manage our relationships with all the key online retailers, including Amazon and The Book Depository, as well as all of our company metadata ensuring optimal visibility of our titles across all online platforms. Reporting directly to the UK and Export Sales Director, ...

“They record their video clips, and with that video file it will then send the metadata from the newsroom, now augmented with data from the camera and in an XML file, to be imported back into the newsroom. “This means the metadata with the story will pass with the video throughout the chain. There are ...

Metadata has been the bane of the music industry for years. Can Spotify crowdsource a solution? Spotify is rolling out a bunch of new, snazzy features as it gears up for what has been termed as “an unconventional IPO”. One such element was added a month ago. The giant streamer unveiled a “Show ...

In the UK, supply chain organisation Book Industry Communication (BIC) has urged publishers to stop using 'hugely confusing' blurb material in title and subtitle metadata fields, reports the Bookseller. BIC issued a statement on 9 March in which it noted that some publishers and other metadata providers ...

Spanning Cloud Apps has gone meta with the latest update to its Salesforce backup product. Spanning Backup for Salesforce now directly restores metadata components to production and sandbox environments in a few clicks. The following metadata types are included in the update: dashboards, email, ...

York, United Kingdom – 6 April, 2018 – Piksel, a global provider of cutting-edge video technology solutions, has today announced the creation of a new 'metadata ecosystem' with a range of metadata vendors from across Europe. The ecosystem will bring together vendors including the Netherland's Bindinc ...