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Best Practices for Metadata Management

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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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What is a data architect? Skills, salaries, and how to become a data framework master

CIO Business Intelligence

Data architect role Data architects are senior visionaries who translate business requirements into technology requirements and define data standards and principles, often in support of data or digital transformations.

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Data-Driven Enterprise Architecture: Why Enterprise Architects Need to Look at Data First

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The typical notion is that enterprise architects and data (and metadata) architects are in opposite corners. At Avydium , we believe there’s an important middle ground where different architecture disciplines coexist, including enterprise, solution, application, data, metadata and technical architectures. Where do these layers connect?

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How Huron built an Amazon QuickSight Asset Catalogue with AWS CDK Based Deployment Pipeline

AWS Big Data

Having an accurate and up-to-date inventory of all technical assets helps an organization ensure it can keep track of all its resources with metadata information such as their assigned oners, last updated date, used by whom, how frequently and more. This is a guest blog post co-written with Corey Johnson from Huron.

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Data Profiling: What It Is and How to Perfect It

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This is accomplished by analyzing one or multiple data sources and collecting metadata that shows the condition of the data and enables the data steward to investigate the origin of data errors. Data migration Digital transformation is ongoing. Do you need to add metadata to information to put it in a data lake?

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At the Top of Everyone’s List

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To draw up the ShortList, Constellation Research’s Vice President and Principal Analyst Doug Henschen evaluated more than a dozen of the industry’s best data cataloging solutions, judging companies based on a combination of client inquiries, partner conversations, customer references, vendor selection projects, market share and internal research.

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Gain insights from historical location data using Amazon Location Service and AWS analytics services

AWS Big Data

The Data Catalog provides metadata that allows analytics applications using Athena to find, read, and process the location data stored in Amazon S3. Refer to the instructions in the README file for steps on how to provision and decommission this solution. You can test this solution yourself using the AWS Samples GitHub repository.