Understanding the power of metadata is an essential component to successful digital transformation. It can be crucial to an organization’s future content management solution.
Simply stated: Metadata is data that provides information about, or describes, other data.
Everyone is aware of Created Date, Accessed Date and Modified Date etc. in the properties of a file. This is metadata.
It can be internal, within the contents of the file. Or, it can be external, residing in a database, catalogue, library or an index associated with the file.
It some instances, it can be created manually, but most metadata is created automatically by the applications used to create the file.
Custom metadata is data that is added to a file beyond the basic metadata automatically generated by an application. It comes in the form of tags and classifications to further describe and provide additional information about the underlying data. It can be added to a file using other applications like Shinydocs Discovery Desktop. The process of adding custom metadata can also by automated.
With the basic metadata, or even better, with custom metadata, organizations can realize the following benefits:
Enhanced search options gaining better accuracy of search
Streamlined migration projects by adding migration rule tags.
Setting rules on a file for defensible disposition.
Flagging files that are known to contain PII(Personal Identifiable Information) that must be managed in order to stay compliant with ever growing privacy regulations.
Create connections between seemingly unrelated files, like invoices to CAD drawings, that although different, may be associated with the same project and can be linked with project Id metadata.
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