Chapter 10. Enterprise Metadata Management
Why include a chapter on enterprise metadata management? Metadata is increasingly important in achieving the synergistic alignment of business and IT domains. This chapter describes new aspects of metadata, how it relates to the mapping of business terms to IT objects, and the increasing role enterprise-wide metadata management has in information-centric use case scenarios.
We also describe the emerging role of metadata and its management capabilities in architecturally mature environments. The goal is not to deliver an exhaustive description about all facets of metadata; there are already a number of great books available.1 Instead, we concentrate on the aspects of metadata depicted in Figure 10.1 ...
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