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3.1 Introduction
Chapters 1 and 2 have established that business metadata is much broader
than, and quite different from, the structured technical metadata that we have
historically captured in our technical application implementations. Now that
we have presented the definition of business metadata and discussed its value
to the enterprise, this chapter will introduce some of the organizational options
and challenges for managing business metadata.
The objective of this book is not to discuss the content and complex-
ity of the structured metadata that could be maintained by an enterprise;
there are many technical publications that currently ...