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Partnering For Innovation Edinburgh – £5m for Metatdata Production Tools

November 24, 2010 in Events

Date: 1 December 2010, from 10:00am – 2:00pm
Venue: Inspace, 1 Crichton Street
Edinburgh, EH8 9AB, UK
Cost: Free
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Metadata Production Tools Competition

The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) is investing up to £5m in collaborative R&D projects looking to create tools that make the production of content, such as film, music and computer games, more cost-effective, less risky and yield greater value through new advanced uses of metadata.

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MiniBar Data about Data

August 18, 2010 in Events

Date: Fri 27 Aug, 2010 from 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Venue Corbet Place Bar, through the Old Truman Brewery,
London, E1 6NH, UK
Cost: Free – RSVP required on the event website

This month we will focusing on Metadata – the data about data that lets us find content, contextualize it, stream it etc. To some it’s the holy grail of the the future interweb, to others it’s the boring grunt work behind the scenes making objects identifiable.

Whatever the truth is, e-books, maps, location based services and many other apps rely on metadata opening up business opportunities, while presenting technical challenges.

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