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clarity and meaning to data; it helps businesspeople find what they are looking
for in the way of information assets; and it helps prevent the organization from
reinventing reports that have already been written. Much of the rest of this
book will be about adding examples and statistics to build a business case for
the value of business metadata in particular.
2.7 References
Stephens, R. Todd. “Knowledge: The Essence of Meta Data: Is the Library
Card Catalog Analogy Good or Bad for Meta Data?” DMReview, July 17,
2003: http://www.dmreview.com/article_sub.cfm?articleID=7095
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Card catalog image: http://www.uaf.edu/ ...