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Metadata Management is becoming more important ...
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There is continued pressure and interest in being able to provide access to an integrated view of corporate in formation.
This is being encouraged by CRM, which requires one single, consistent view of all sources of Customer data.
There are different approaches to the design of a Metadata Architecture.
Here's one that represents a good starting-point :-
- Define the requirements - eg provide different views to the same enterprise MetaData.
- Design the Data Model for the database which will provide the Repository.
- Carry out a Walkthrough using a small sample of actual metadata with the Users.
- Review the available commercial products to meet the requirements.
There is also a Page discussing
MetaData Repositories, and
a Data Model for MetaData Management.
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Here is a series of Useful Links :-
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Events (Past) |
MetaData Management Summit - Fall 2004. |
| Book
| 'Building and Managing the MetaData Repository', by David Marco,
(5 stars out of 5 on Amazon). |
| Book
| 'MetaData Solutions', by Adrienne Tannenbaum, (4 stars out of 5 on Amazon). |
| Book
| 'MetaData Management for Information Control and Business Success', by Guy Tozer,
(5 stars out of 5 on Amazon). |
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Book
| 'Professional XML MetaData', by David Dodds et al., (5 stars out of 5 on Amazon)
- focussed on the emerging 'Semantic Web'. |
| Consultants
| MetaModel.com |
| Consultants
| Data Advantage Group |
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Products
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MetaMatrix. |
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Products
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MetaTrieval. |
| Products
| Visio 2000 Enterprise can be used to translate Business Rules
into a Data Model |
| Research
| Brief summary with a wide variety of useful references. |
| References
| MetaData.net - Wow !!! |
| Standards
| Dublin Core MetaData Initiative - an open forum engaged in the development of standards. |
| Standards
| MetaData Coalition. |
| Tools
| Dublin Core MetaData Initiative - Tools for manipulating MetaData. |
