
Chapter 3 Business Metadata Stewardship
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3.3 Business Metadata Stewardship Concepts
Over the last decade ownership versus stewardship has been a topic for discus-
sion within the data management community. Thus, a significant number of
publications exist that discuss the concepts of stewardship around data. The
same concepts of stewardship can be applied to business metadata and meta-
data in general. First, let’s define some of the critical terms of stewardship and
ownership.
3.3.1 Ownership Definition
Often business managers desire full control over all resources necessary to
maintain and monitor the business processes, as well as the data and ...