
Chapter 6 Business Metadata Capture
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Business terms
Definitions of business terms
Linking of business terms to the data elements of one or more systems
Business rules
Optimal ways of performing the job (“knowledge artifacts”; knowledge
encyclopedia entries)
Categorization (of business terms, documents, Web pages, etc.)
This chapter first examines why knowledge capture is so important. Business
metadata, after all, exists for businesspeople to use, and it should reflect their point
of view. There has to be a way (and a place) to capture their perspective so that it can
be accessed by other businesspeople. We will attempt to define what the corporate ...