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to create their own business metadata. One of the obstacles businesspeople
have had in the past has been the technologies available for creating business
metadata. In the past, IT was limited in the development of applications to cre-
ate and integrate business metadata. Today, folksonomies, wikis, blogs, portal
technologies, groupware in general, and enterprise mashups are some of the
technologies that are making business metadata more accessible to business-
people with limited IT resource requirements.
We are living in an exciting era of new technologies; it is likely that after this
book is published, yet more technologies will become av ...