Do We Still Need Metadata in the Age of AI?

AI can understand content and answer complex questions with ease. Modern search systems deliver relevant results even when the search terms don’t match exactly. And classifications can increasingly be generated automatically.

So it’s no wonder that many professionals in the field of technical communication are asking themselves: Do we still need metadata?

What at first glance appears to be a mere substitute turns out, in practice, to be an essential foundation: AI cannot function without context, structure, and clear semantics—and that is precisely what metadata provides.

In this webinar, Karsten Schrempp (PANTOPIX) and Jörg Schmidt (RWS) will explain why metadata remains indispensable in technical communication today. You will learn how metadata serves as a link between content, systems, and delivery channels, and what role taxonomies, ontologies, and semantic AI play. We will also examine when the use of knowledge graphs actually makes sense in technical communication.