[2] In Intel's presentation at the 'Intel Developer Forum 2013,' they introduced several new types of digital assets related to medicine, education, voting, friendships, conversations, and reputation, among others.
[6] Librarian Lorcan Dempsey says "Think of metadata as data which removes from a user (human or machine) the need to have full advance knowledge of the existence or characteristics of things of potential interest in the environment".
Catalogs, inventories, registers, and other similar standardized forms of organizing, managing, and retrieving resources contain metadata.
Metadata can be stored and contained directly within the file it refers to or independently from it with the help of other forms of data management such as a DAM system.
[9] Due to a lack of either legislation or legal precedent, there is limited existing governmental control and regulation surrounding digital assets in the United States and other large economies globally.
[11] This subject was broached in a bogus story about Bruce Willis allegedly looking to sue Apple as the end user agreement prevented him from bequeathing his iTunes collection to his children.
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