
Chapter 3 Business Metadata Stewardship
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corporations established stewardship teams in business units, the overwhelm-
ing majority established the teams within the IT organization. The stewardship
teams generally focused on the major data subjects or enterprise data model in
the corporation. For example, these subjects could be
Product (the infrastructure for creation and delivery of products and
services)
Customer (the definition and management of the corporation’s
customers)
Network (the infrastructure and management of the network of a tele-
communications firm)
Finance (the definition and management of the financial policies)
Engineering (the ...