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METADATA, GUIDELINES, AND POLICY
In Chapters 7, 8, and 10, we discussed maintaining a repository of information about the data within the system. We used the term metadata to refer to this repository. In this chapter, we explore metadata in more detail, since a major component of a knowledge management program is the maintenance of as much information as possible about an organization’s data resource.
The simplest definition of metadata is “data about data.” In practice, metadata is a repository of information that enables a user to independently learn and understand what information is available and extractable from a given data resource. Because of the many different ways that information is used, this reflects the many different ways metadata ...
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