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9.5.2 Integration and Administrative Source of Record: Conflict
Resolution
Metadata resides all over the enterprise, in many different places throughout the
Corporate Information Factory, as we have discussed throughout this book. Just as
in a data warehouse, conflicts may arise when metadata is extracted from multiple
sources. One type of metadata may have different values, but it is supposed to be
the same piece of metadata. This happens in the context of master data manage-
ment (MDM) projects all the time, when Customer data is located in five different
systems; which is the best? Which is the “Gold Copy”? In the case of metadata,
would ...