
Chapter 7 Capturing Business Metadata from Existing Data
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Pick lists for field data entry
Data dictionary
Application code (lots of hard coded stuff!)
Any discussion of legacy system metadata should also include user guides
and general user documentation.
Many issues are associated with the metadata found in the legacy applica-
tions environment. Some of the issues are as follows:
How up to date is the metadata? Has it been maintained over time?
How complete is the metadata in the legacy application environment?
How can the metadata be accessed? Usually, older technologies did not
make metadata access especially easy.
On the assumption that the metadata ...