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sense for it to contain both kinds of metadata. Making the decision as to what
kinds of metadata belong in the enterprise metadata repository is one that must
be done strategically, in advance.
Building the enterprise metadata repository for both technical and business
metadata can be a complex and lengthy task. It is strongly advised that it be
built iteratively. Just like a data warehousing environment, one should not
attempt to build an enterprise metadata repository as one large long-term
project. There are many ways of organizing these iterations.
5.3.2 Different Iterations of Development ...