Metadata: Know What It's All About
Metadata is a popular yet complex topic in the IT realm. Metadata Solutions by Adrienne Tannenbaum [2002] provides an in-depth discussion of the topic, especially in relation to structured data applications. For our purposes, however, we will examine a narrow range of the metadata topics and focus primarily on describing the content and services available within an enterprise portal. The driving reason to adopt a metadata strategy is to improve users' access to information and services they need to get their jobs done—and that means we need metadata about both content and applications.
Portal designers often consider content metadata but neglect to include information about the applications available to portal ...
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