Performing Information Governance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Making Information Governance Work

Chapter 12. Ongoing Metadata Management Processes

This chapter provides a detailed overview on metadata and metadata management. It starts with a conversation on the growing awareness and importance of metadata, both internally and externally. Many of the regulatory compliance laws for reporting are more and more including metadata as an aspect of their requirements. The chapter’s next topic covers the evolution of metadata, from the 1980s to the present, in terms of technologies and processes, from CASE tools to modern mapping and data integration environments, all extending metadata capabilities. The chapter then reviews the different business and technical types and users of that metadata. The next part of the chapter reviews metadata management ...