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Best Practices for Metadata Management

Alation

What Is Metadata? Metadata is information about data. A clothing catalog or dictionary are both examples of metadata repositories. Indeed, a popular online catalog, like Amazon, offers rich metadata around products to guide shoppers: ratings, reviews, and product details are all examples of metadata.

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Top 10 Metadata Management Influencers, Sites, and Blogs You Must Follow in 2021

Octopai

Aptly named, metadata management is the process in which BI and Analytics teams manage metadata, which is the data that describes other data. In other words, data is the context and metadata is the content. Without metadata, BI teams are unable to understand the data’s full story. Donna Burbank. IRM UK Connects.

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Maximize your data dividends with active metadata

IBM Big Data Hub

Metadata management performs a critical role within the modern data management stack. However, as data volumes continue to grow, manual approaches to metadata management are sub-optimal and can result in missed opportunities. This puts into perspective the role of active metadata management. What is Active Metadata management?

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Of Muffins and Machine Learning Models

Cloudera

In this example, the Machine Learning (ML) model struggles to differentiate between a chihuahua and a muffin. We will learn what it is, why it is important and how Cloudera Machine Learning (CML) is helping organisations tackle this challenge as part of the broader objective of achieving Ethical AI.

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Are You Content with Your Organization’s Content Strategy?

Rocket-Powered Data Science

If you include the title of this blog, you were just presented with 13 examples of heteronyms in the preceding paragraphs. This is accomplished through tags, annotations, and metadata (TAM). My favorite approach to TAM creation and to modern data management in general is AI and machine learning (ML).

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Where Do Data Catalogs Fit in Metadata Management?

Alation

In an earlier blog, I defined a data catalog as “a collection of metadata, combined with data management and search tools, that helps analysts and other data users to find the data that they need, serves as an inventory of available data, and provides information to evaluate fitness data for intended uses.”.

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Ontotext’s Top 5 Most Popular Blog Posts for 2020

Ontotext

At the end of an unconventional year, we at Ontotext still want to honor our tradition and provide our readers with a round-up of the most popular posts on our blog. In its third generation, Ontotext Platform enables organizations to build, use and evolve knowledge graphs as a hub for data, metadata and content.