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Questions tagged [metadata]

Metadata is commonly referred to as "data about data", and is often used for cataloging, indexing, and managing files in a computer.

Metadata, or Metainformation, is data about other data. An item of metadata one can say what it is that data, usually an intelligible information by a computer. Metadata facilitates the understanding of relationships and usefulness of the data.

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Adding Copyright metadata details to media files in Windows 10

Window10 gives users the access to add/edit metadata to media files(video,audio etc) by accesing it's properties (file - rightclick -properties),but it does not allow the ability to add Copyright information for the file. How can one override this…
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XMP for Describing, Cataloging, and Searching Files and Folders

I am seeking a way to tag files and, if possible, folders or groups of files. I also wish to be able to search the files using these tags. With Windows 7 the search and tagging functions are available but the XMP standard is attractive; for the…
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How to TAG webm and weba files/ How to edit metadata of webm and weba files?

I use the app MusicBrainz Picard (and easytag) as my windows music-video file tagger. I manage all my media library with this wondeful app. But I've recently accumulated some hundreds of WEBM and WEBA files and I don't know how to make a clean…
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Add metadata for images as key/value pair?

I am trying to add metadata to images, and I want it as key/value pairs. I know about the possibility to add keywords. But they are just a list of words. I would like to be able to add the metadata as pairs, like Product=Apple. Is this possible? If…
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What's the most time and idiot-proof way to store metadata?

For example, let's say I keep a bunch of documents, images, videos, and ZIP archives on a remote computer/storage facility (say S3), which I download in a way that strips the files of their creation dates, et al. (say FTP) after a number of years…
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change photos metadata by given time

My camera's batteries run out and the stored date was wrong and the I have now about 100 photos with an incorrect date. Is there any app that can change the photos date? Something that can calculate NewDate=(OldDate - 1day.2months.12hours), so I…
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Metadata is not being added when explicitly defined

when running the below command ffmpeg -i '.\input - s01e01.mp4' -metadata iTunEXTC="mpaa|TV-Y|300|BecasueReasons" '.\output - s01e01.mp4' the metadata field is not added.
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Relative position of bits in the "Bit-sequence" of a file

Every file is written as bits & bits & bits &....so on. Also, every file has 2 types of metadata: OS metadata: file location, owner, permissions etc. which are written in the OS itself(for example: in the inode for linux) Non-OS metadata: copyright…
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Easiest way to sum numbers in a given format

I have a long list like this, 26m 26m 27m 28m 28m 28m 29m 29m 29m 2h 0m 2h 10m 2h 10m 2h 17m 2h 19m 2h 21m I want to calculate the total duration using any software, what's the easiest way to do this, I am not best person to work with EXCEL.
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where are the efforts to standardize download integrity metadata? (appcasting?)

I download open-source software all the time and am continually perplexed by the fact that on the one hand, so many sites (Apache, MySQL, Eclipse) give download integrity information through MD5 hashes and/or digital signatures, especially since…
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