According to Anna’s Archive, the data grab represents more than 99 percent of listens on Spotify, making it “the largest publicly available music metadata database with 256 million tracks.” It’s also “the world’s first ‘preservation archive’ for music which is fully open,” with 86 million music files, the archive boasted.

Hackers say they’ve scraped Spotify’s entire music library – compiling the metadata behind 256 million tracks tied to over 15.4 million artist profiles – and intend to make a massive amount of music available to torrent.

The Dag Hammarskjöld Library is celebrating the milestone of creating over one million bibliographic metadata units in the UN Digital Library, its online catalogue. Every year, the UN generates thousands of documents and publications of various types ...

Since the 1960s, academic libraries have been using their own standards for the communication of metadata about resources in their catalogs. Originally designed for magnetic tape-based computers, machine-readable cataloging (MARC) standards are only ...