
implement the plan. In this chapter, we focus mainly on the business metadata
part of data quality but also touch upon technical metadata as it bears on the
business metadata. We will see that it is very important that business and tech-
nical metadata work together to deliver information quality.
We will cover several other topics concerning information quality, notably the
importance of a business dictionary in ensuring quality data, and how an infor-
mation quality methodology becomes part of business metadata, in addition to
its guiding the production of work products, which are also themselves business
metadata. Lastly, the delivery of information ...