
Chapter 7 Capturing Business Metadata from Existing Data
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Metadata
sources
Edit
There are two kinds of editing-
manual and automated
Figure 7.2 Manual and Automated Metadata Editing.
7.3 Editing the Metadata as It Passes into the Enterprise
Metadata Repository
In almost every case, the sources of metadata must be edited before the
data they contain is fit for the enterprise metadata repository. This is espe-
cially true when it comes to transforming technical metadata into business
metadata.
In fact, extensive editing is often required in order to take the metadata from
the source to the enterprise metadata repository. There are tw ...