11 REPOSITORY ADMINISTRATION
As we saw in Chapter 3, repository administration is concerned with the management and control of the software in which ‘information about information’ is stored, manipulated and defined. A repository administrator is, therefore, providing a database administration service to the data management function. The repository administrator needs to follow all the database administration procedures and techniques discussed in Appendix D. This chapter expands on the roles of repositories and other software associated with the handling of metadata.
REPOSITORIES, DATA DICTIONARIES, ENCYCLOPAEDIAS, CATALOGS AND DIRECTORIES
There are many systems, or subsystems, available that have the common primary purpose of storing, ...
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