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Metadata is Like Packaging: Seeing Beyond the Library Card Metaphor

Ontotext

way we package information has a lot to do with metadata. The somewhat conventional metaphor about metadata is the one of the library card. This metaphor has it that books are the data and library cards are the metadata helping us find what we need, want to know more about or even what we don’t know we were looking for.

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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.

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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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What Is Active Metadata Management and How Does It Work?

Octopai

First, what active metadata management isn’t : “Okay, you metadata! Now, what active metadata management is (well, kind of): “Okay, you metadata! Metadata are the details on those tools: what they are, what to use them for, what to use them with. . That takes active metadata management. Quit lounging around!

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How to Operationalize Data From Multiple Sources to Deliver Actionable Insights

Speaker: Speakers from SafeGraph, Facteus, AWS Data Exchange, SimilarWeb, and AtScale

Leveraging metadata (labels, annotations) for deep dimensional analysis. Tuesday, September 14th, 2021 at 11AM PDT, 2PM EDT, 7PM GMT. In this webinar, you will learn about: Blending various high quality third-party datasets with internal data. Extending analysis-ready data to all of your business stakeholders at scale.

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erwin’s Predictions for 2021: Data Relevance Shines at the End of the Tunnel

erwin

Our predictions for 2021 are rooted in what we’ve learned from the past year and the relevance of data in getting us to where we are and where we need to go. This year, that will change as semantic metadata comes into its own driven by Microsoft’s Common Data Model (CDM). COVID changed everything. Click here to learn more and register.

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Announcing the 2021 Data Impact Awards

Cloudera

And it is with this in mind, that we’re delighted to announce that the 2021 Cloudera Data Impact Awards is now open for entries. The 2021 Cloudera Data Impact Award categories aim to recognize organizations that are using Cloudera’s platform and services to unlock the power of data, with massive business and social impact.