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

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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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Metadata is Like Packaging: Seeing Beyond the Library Card Metaphor

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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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What is Metadata Management?

Octopai

Modern data processing depends on metadata management to power enhanced business intelligence. Metadata is of course the information about the data, and the process of managing it is mysterious to those not trained in advanced BI. In this article, you will learn: What does metadata management do? What is metadata management?

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Three’s Company Too: Metadata, Data and Text Analysis

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Metadata used to be a secret shared between system programmers and the data. Metadata described the data in terms of cardinality, data types such as strings vs integers, and primary or foreign key relationships. Inevitably, the information that could and needed to be expressed by metadata increased in complexity.

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How A Data Catalog Enhances Data Risk Management

Alation

Alation joined with Ortecha , a data management consultancy, to publish a white paper providing insights and guidance to stakeholders and decision-makers charged with implementing or modernising data risk management functions. Download the complete white paper now. Or, read on for a brief summary.

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Benefits of Metadata Management Automation in the Insurance Industry

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Insurance Metadata Management. The keys to proper insurance data managemen t are data governance and metadata management. Data Governance and Metadata Management for the Insurance Industry. Both of these two keys deal with metadata. None of this is possible without robust metadata management.

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Data Intelligence and Its Role in Combating Covid-19

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Unraveling Data Complexities with Metadata Management. Metadata management will be critical to the process for cataloging data via automated scans. Essentially, metadata management is the administration of data that describes other data, with an emphasis on associations and lineage. Data lineage to support impact analysis.

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