Find out how personal metadata, social media posts, and online activity make up an individual's "Digital Footprint", why they matter, and hear some advice on how to better manage digital tracks and traces. Nicola Osborne will draw on recent University of Edinburgh research on students' digital footprints, which is also the subject of the new #DFMOOC free online. Presented at the CIG Scotland seminar 'Somewhere over the Rainbow: our metadata online, past, present & future' (Metadata & Web 2.0 Series) at the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, 5th April 2017