A Guardian Guide to Your Metadata | Technology | guardian.co.uk

The guide explores some of the metadata collected through activities you do every day with services including email, phone, camera, Facebook, Twitter, Google Search and web browsers.

A core skill for librarians is learning about metadata. Our reference and research abilities are inherently dependent upon the metadata linked to the materials we are searching for and retrieving. Now we can use these skills to assist our users and patrons in learning about their own personal metadata if they want to educate themselves or have privacy concerns.