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Best Practices for Metadata Management

Alation

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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Metadata Management Best Practices: How to Plan Your Metadata Management Program

Octopai

Metadata has been defined as the who, what, where, when, why, and how of data. Without the context given by metadata, data is just a bunch of numbers and letters. But going on a rampage to define, categorize, and otherwise metadata-ize your data doesn’t necessarily give you the key to the value in your data. Hold on tight!

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How Eightfold AI implemented metadata security in a multi-tenant data analytics environment with Amazon Redshift

AWS Big Data

As part of the Talent Intelligence Platform Eightfold also exposes a data hub where each customer can access their Amazon Redshift-based data warehouse and perform ad hoc queries as well as schedule queries for reporting and data export. This post discusses restricting listing of data catalog metadata as per the granted permissions.

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What Is a Metadata Management Tool?

Octopai

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? What is a metadata management tool? What are examples of metadata management tools?

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

erwin

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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