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Before Entering This Module

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This module will cover what and how metadata is used in BWF MetaEdit. This software embeds and codes information onto the files you upload to it in the form of checksums. Checksums are bits of data that help identify if there is corruption or errors in the file. BWF MetaEdit is an important tool to ensure data integrity or the condition and consistency of data over its lifetime. The image above, courtesy of Indigitization, Museum of Anthropology, at the University of British Columbia, illustrates how your file, the metadata, and broadcast wave that includes the checksum are all compartmentalized keeping the original recording intact, in an uncompressed format via BWF MetaEdit.

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