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The cost of business metadata in this form is minimal.
The implementation can be done according to the end-user’s schedule.
Disadvantages of end-user funding:
The relationship between business metadata and technical metadata
may be lost.
There may not be an awareness that business metadata is part of a larger
framework.
3.8 Summary
This chapter has discussed how to set up data stewardship organizations within
an enterprise for the purpose of governing business metadata, and highlighted
the idea that such efforts can piggyback onto traditional data stewardship pro-
grams if they revolve around participants representing the business and not IT
only ...