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Metadata - What It Is, And How To Handle It

I was involved in a fairly long discussion this past weekend on the topic of metadata.  For an excellent article on the subject, check out this article by Ann Gergen.  A great tool that analyzes and removes metadata in Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, look no further than Metadata Assistant from Payne Consulting Group.  It even integrates with Outlook to clean outgoing e-mail attachments. Converts to PDF too. Creates reports in XML. Fully customizable & supported.

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This entry was posted on Monday, October 23rd, 2006 at 3:30 am and is filed under Office Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Metadata - What It Is, And How To Handle It”

  1. Mining Documents For Metadata? Be Careful! at New York Bankruptcy Litigation Says:
    May 31st, 2007 at 3:41 am

    [...] It’s important to understand just how important metadata is.  I blogged on the topic of metadata on one of my other sites, and you can access the post to review on your own.  But suffice to say metadata is the hidden code within a word processing document, the stuff you type and then delete before sending it along to a recipient. [...]

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