
135
editing as a repeatable process, so the challenge is to figure out how you can auto-
mate it. But sometimes manual editing is required for the initial load. Metadata
can be manually edited and placed in the staging area we have just discussed,
and then an automated process can be used to load it into the repository.
7.4 Turning Technical Metadata into Business Metadata
Most of the metadata mentioned in this chapter is technical metadata. Obviously,
in its original format, technical metadata is not suitable for or comprehensible
to business people. Therefore, it must be translated into the language of the
business, in a format that businesspeople ...