Metadata is information about the data collected. According to the Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBoK), metadata “includes information about technical and business processes, data rules and constraints, and logical and physical data structures.” Think of it as a wrapper around data that describes it, like how packaging tells what food is in a box or […]
Knowledge Maps – How to Ask a Good Data Question
Click to learn more about author John Singer. The good news about the Knowledge Map is you can start anywhere and build out from there. Because data is organized into facts, each fact being represented by a subject node, relationship (predicate), and an object node on the graph (see Knowledge Maps – A New Model For […]
Knowledge Maps – A New Model for Metadata
Click to learn more about author John Singer. IT Metadata Management – that quirky corner of IT recognized as a “critical success factor” yet the most under-funded aspect of any initiative. Historically, each new wave of IT technical innovation brings with it a call for better Metadata Management. The new innovation disrupts the current status quo […]
Knowledge Maps – Connecting the Dots
Click to learn more about author John Singer. The solution to the problem described in “Knowledge Maps: What Is the Problem We Are Trying To Solve” lies in the artful combination of several maturing technologies – Semantics, Graph Databases, and Web Services. Semantics: Combining best practices from several related fields (Library Science, Information Science, Linguistics), technologies […]
Knowledge Maps – What is the Problem We are Trying to Solve?
Click to learn more about author John Singer. Many people in their daily jobs lack the information they need to make well informed decisions, take decisive action, or solve problems. This lack of “the right information at the right time” results in unhappy customers, loss of sales, or the inability to recover quickly from broken processes […]
Metadata Management and Data Governance: The Essentials of Enterprise Architecture
“To be successful, a solution to both Metadata Management and Data Governance should be integrated,” said Christian Bremeau, CEO and President of Meta Integration Technology. “Metadata Management starts by supporting virtually any tools that your IT is using.” Bremeau presented at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data World 2016 Conference with his colleague, John Friedrich, Vice President […]
Business Glossary Basics
Enterprises continue to grow and so does data environment complexity, including data terminology both internal and external to a particular enterprise. Consider a firm that builds computer chips for new devices. Each project may have its own Database System and Data Dictionary. Yet engineers, management, accountants, and customers need to speak the same language to […]
2017 Predictions for Data Quality and Data Governance
The need in Enterprise Data Governance is to identify, develop, and structure organizational goals, governance practices, roles, and responsibilities for maximizing the earned benefits from those efforts. Global enterprises can no longer afford to procrastinate on possible Data Quality control approaches; they have to act now. In fact, Gartner warned that by the end of […]
TopQuadrant Launches TopBraid Suite 5.2
TopQuadrant™ recently notified Dataversity about the release of their new version 5.2 of TopBraid Suite, a collection of web-based solutions for data governance and vocabulary management. This update includes support for business glossaries, reference data, metadata management, data policy and lineage models as well as other business, technical and operational metadata. “This release of TopBraid […]
Syncsort Make Big Data Governance Easier
Syncsort, a global leader in Big Iron to Big Data Governance, announced on PRNewswire its new open metadata management capabilities in its DMX-h data integration software that, along with its seamless integration with Cloudera Navigator, makes Big Data governance easier. Syncsort’s multi-award winning DMX-h provides organizations with a single interface for accessing and integrating all […]