Business Metadata: Capturing Enterprise Knowledge

Chapter 16 In Summary

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Lastly, there’s the computer back to human interaction, shown in Figure

16.4. It looks the same as Figure 16.2 but it is really not, in this context.

Business metadata mainly addresses the fourth gap, computer to human,

but it also addresses the others tangentially. The main thrust of business meta-

data is about adding context to data that is housed in computer applications

and about helping businesspeople make sense of their data. The Roach Motel

analogy comes to mind here: You can get data into a system all you want, but

if you can’t get it out, then what good is it? This observation applies especially

to understanding ...