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Metadata, the Neglected Stepchild of IT

Data Virtualization

Reading Time: 3 minutes While cleaning up our archive recently, I found an old article published in 1976 about data dictionary/directory systems (DD/DS). Nowadays, we no longer use the term DD/DS, but “data catalog” or simply “metadata system”. It was written by L.

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Data architecture strategy for data quality

IBM Big Data Hub

Several factors determine the quality of your enterprise data like accuracy, completeness, consistency, to name a few. But there’s another factor of data quality that doesn’t get the recognition it deserves: your data architecture. How the right data architecture improves data quality.

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IBM named a leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Integration Tools

IBM Big Data Hub

The only question is, how do you ensure effective ways of breaking down data silos and bringing data together for self-service access? It starts by modernizing your data integration capabilities – ensuring disparate data sources and cloud environments can come together to deliver data in real time and fuel AI initiatives.

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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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Use Apache Iceberg in your data lake with Amazon S3, AWS Glue, and Snowflake

AWS Big Data

They understand that a one-size-fits-all approach no longer works, and recognize the value in adopting scalable, flexible tools and open data formats to support interoperability in a modern data architecture to accelerate the delivery of new solutions.

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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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How Knowledge Graphs Power Data Mesh and Data Fabric

Ontotext

In most enterprises data teams lack a data map and data asset inventory and are often unaware of data that exists across the organization, its associated profile, quality and associated metadata. Teams can’t access data to build their business use cases. For example, a product data tag is basic metadata.