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favor of others, depending on business emphasis. Data accuracy can be less of
an issue for certain less critical data. This is not the case for metadata, how-
ever. No metadata component can be ignored. The purpose of metadata is to
describe the data. It is vital that the description of the data is current, accurate,
accessible, complete, and consistent (with the data itself as well as with the
processes that created the data) and that it has integrity. In short, the metadata
must be of such high quality that business and technical users can rely on it. If
any component of the metadata does not meet the ...