Brief Table of Contents
Preface xix
1 Introducing Business Metadata 1
2 The Value of Business Metadata
Management 25
3 Who Is Responsible for Business Metadata:
Business Metadata Stewardship 37
4 Business Metadata, Communication, and
Search 55
5 Initiating a Business Metadata Project 79
6 Business Metadata Capture 89
7 Capturing Business Metadata from Existing
Data 121
8 Business Metadata Delivery 139
9 Business Metadata Infrastructure 157
10 Data and Information Quality as Business
Metadata 175
11 Semantics and Business Metadata 195
12 Unstructured Business Metadata 219
13 Business Rules 235
14 Compliance and Business Metadata 247
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