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Business Metadata
Praise for Business Metadata
“Despite the presence of some excellent books on what is essentially
“technical” metadata, up until now there has been a dearth of well-
presented material to help address the growing need for interaction at
the conceptual and semantic levels between data professionals and the
business clients they support. In Business Metadata, Bill, Bonnie, and
Lowell provide the means for bridging the gap between the sometimes
“fuzzy” human perception of data that fuels business processes and the
rigid information management models used by business applications.
Look to the future: next generation business intelligence, enterprise
content management and search, the semantic web all will depend on
business metadata. Read this book!”
—David Loshin, President, Knowledge Integrity Incorporated
These authors have written a book that ventures into new terri-
tory for data and information management. There are several books
about metadata, but this is the fi rst to offer in-depth discussion of the
important topic of business metadata.
Business metadata is really about understanding the business –
something that IT people have struggled with since the dawn of infor-
mation technology. I see this as a “must read” book for for anyone
with a role in data strategy, data architecture, data governance data
stewardship, pliance and audit, or improving data quality.
Not just theory, but rich with experience-based examples, this book
dives deep into the why, what, how, when, where, and who of busi-
ness metadata. It is sure to be a valuable contribution to the fi eld of
data management.
—David L. Wells, Director of Education, TDWI: The Data
Warehousing Institute
Business Metadata
Capturing Enterprise
Knowledge
. Inmon
Bonnie O’Neil
Lowell Fryman
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