Hidden metadata provides useful file information, but it could also endanger the privacy of your clients or employees. Microsoft Word's metadata, or document properties, stores details about files.

How to let SharePoint users add just the right amount of information to make searching for files easier, without going overboard. Although SharePoint is primarily marketed as a collaboration platform, ...

How come the NSA knows who I spoke to last Nov. 10 at 11 a.m. and for how long, yet I can’t find the phone number of a colleague I called last night? It’s simple -- metadata. CNN defines metadata ...

Box announced onstage at its BoxWorks conference that it will be making the documents stored in its cloud storage system smarter, thanks to upcoming support for metadata. At first glance, this might ...