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data, whereas others support current valued data. Some support the clerical
community; some support the managerial community. In a word, many
forms of data and many different technologies can be found in the Corporate
Information Factory.
Metadata exists wherever there is a different architectural component in the
CIF. Figure 5.2 shows that metadata for each architectural component is scat-
tered throughout the CIF.
5.3 Metadata Project Planning and Scoping
Considerations
As discussed in previous chapters, metadata projects can be categorized as:
Centralized or enterprise implementations
Local implementations ...