Metadata

How clean is your document? What you need to know about metadata

Bar Leader, January - February 2008, Volume 32 Number 3

Perhaps you've heard of metadata. It's a bad thing … right? Well, yes and no. Much like a price tag on a gift, the information hidden within a document can be very useful-unless you forget to remove it when it's no longer needed. In this article, a bar IT director explains what metadata is, where it hides, and how to scrub it out before your document leaves the bar.