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RDF-Star: Metadata Complexity Simplified

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Relational databases benefit from decades of tweaks and optimizations to deliver performance. Not Every Graph is a Knowledge Graph: Schemas and Semantic Metadata Matter. This metadata should then be represented, along with its intricate relationships, in a connected knowledge graph model that can be understood by the business teams”.

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Data Governance and Metadata Management: You Can’t Have One Without the Other

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When an organization’s data governance and metadata management programs work in harmony, then everything is easier. Creating and sustaining an enterprise-wide view of and easy access to underlying metadata is also a tall order. Metadata Management Takes Time. Finding metadata, “the data about the data,” isn’t easy.

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How Metadata Makes Data Meaningful

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Metadata is an important part of data governance, and as a result, most nascent data governance programs are rife with project plans for assessing and documenting metadata. But in many scenarios, it seems that the underlying driver of metadata collection projects is that it’s just something you do for data governance.

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Metadata Management, Data Governance and Automation

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With automation, data professionals can meet the above needs at a fraction of the cost of the traditional, manual way. To summarize, just some of the benefits of data automation are: • Centralized and standardized code management with all automation templates stored in a governed repository. Better quality code and minimized rework.

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Three’s Company Too: Metadata, Data and Text Analysis

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Metadata used to be a secret shared between system programmers and the data. Metadata described the data in terms of cardinality, data types such as strings vs integers, and primary or foreign key relationships. Inevitably, the information that could and needed to be expressed by metadata increased in complexity.

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How Metadata Makes Data Meaningful

erwin

Metadata is an important part of data governance, and as a result, most nascent data governance programs are rife with project plans for assessing and documenting metadata. But in many scenarios, it seems that the underlying driver of metadata collection projects is that it’s just something you do for data governance.

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Metadata Archiving with Snowflake

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The importance of metadata. Metadata is best defined as data that characterizes data. Metadata provides the who, what, where, when, why and how of that information. When companies have a properly engineered process to create, store and manage metadata, it benefits all focus areas of the business.