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Measuring Data Quality for Ongoing Improvement
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Measuring Data Quality for Ongoing Improvement

by Laura Sebastian-Coleman
December 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
376 pages
13h 56m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Chapter 3

Data Management, Models, and Metadata

“Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.”

—Sun Tzu, The Art of War (6th century BC)

Purpose

This chapter presents a set of concepts related to data management in order to ensure a common understanding of these terms throughout the book. It includes discussion of data management itself, along with the various kinds of data assets that require management. Data management implies the need for particular kinds of knowledge about data: what data represents, how much of it there is in an organization, how it is organized and maintained, where it resides, who uses it and the like. The chapter includes an extended discussion on data models and on metadata, as these ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780123970336