The future of metadata
Metadata may be the single most important feature of Oracle UCM. Imagine trying to find a scanned copy of a vendor invoice if you had no metadata, no title, description, date of the invoice, vendor name, or contract number. Imagine going through thousands of digital images wasting many hours just to find the one you need. You now have the power to take your project and your organization to the next level by bringing just the info your business needs—exactly when it's needed. And you have a complete picture of what tools you can use.
But what if you'd like to tap the brain power of your entire organization and have your users shape and redefine your metadata over time? I'm sure you've heard of the Web 2.0 tools such as Tag Clouds and Folksonomies that let you build on and benefit from the collective intelligence.
Even if this is not the direction you're taking right now, this trend is simply too important to ignore, and you owe it to yourself to keep current. There are...
