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The Gold Standard – The Key to Information Extraction and Data Quality Control

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Originally, the Gold Standard was a monetary system that required countries to fix the value of their currencies to a certain amount of gold, aiming to replace the unreliable human control with a fixed measurement that could be used by everyone. Simply put, we need to be able to measure and evaluate our results against clearly set criteria.

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How to Build a Meshy Data Fabric (With a Data Catalog!)

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This white paper makes this information actionable with a methodology, so you can learn how to implement a meshy fabric with your data catalog. For the full story, download the white paper here ! This data about data, AKA metadata , is an essential layer of your new meshy fabric.

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What Is a Metadata Management Tool?

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What enables you to use all those gigabytes and terabytes of data you’ve collected? Metadata is the pertinent, practical details about data assets: what they are, what to use them for, what to use them with. Without metadata, data is just a heap of numbers and letters collecting dust. Where does metadata come from?

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What Is a Data Fabric and How Does a Data Catalog Support It?

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As a reminder, here’s Gartner’s definition of data fabric: “A design concept that serves as an integrated layer (fabric) of data and connecting processes. In this blog, we will focus on the “integrated layer” part of this definition by examining each of the key layers of a comprehensive data fabric in more detail.

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Data Mesh vs. Data Fabric: A Love Story

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Spoiler alert: data fabric and data mesh are independent design concepts that are, in fact, quite complementary. Data fabric has captured most of the limelight; it focuses on the technologies required to support metadata-driven use cases across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The key is metadata.