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metadata, but there is no language consistency. One metadata word in one
place may mean something entirely different in another place; and the same
thing may be called many different names. There simply is no cohesiveness or
integration among metadata found in different places.
Actually, an interesting observation can be made about metadata: It is in
essence another data warehouse. Just as the enterprise needs a data warehouse
to gather together and harmonize all the data from the diverse departments and
divisions from the enterprise and bring it to one place so that it can be analyzed ...