Business Metadata: Capturing Enterprise Knowledge

People have a hard time communicating, and have a hard time finding business knowledge in the environment. With the sophistication of search technologies like Google, business people expect to be able to find an internet search. The truth is, it is a poor management metadata management.

This book is about the right job for IT. By providing not just data, but the context behind the data. For the IT professional, it will be tactically practical - very "how to". And for the IT or other managers who need a guide for creating and strategic projects.



* First book that is able to accommodate businesses and corporate clients.

* Written by Bill Inmon, and written with examples, examples, and cases from current projects.

* Very practical, includes a complete metadata. Acquisition methodology and project plan to guide readers every step of the way.

* Includes sample unstructured metadata for use in self-testing and developing skills.

Business Metadata
The Quest for Business Understanding

Section I: Rationale and Planning

1.What is Business Metadata
2. The Value and Benefits of Business Metadata
3.Who is responsible for Business Metadata?
4.Business Metadata, Communication and Search (BKO)
5.OUT; this chapter rolled into Stewardship

Section II: How-To
6.How do you initiate a MD project?
7.Technology Infrastructure for Metadata
8.Business Metadata Capture
8.5Business Metadata Capture from Existing
9.MD Delivery Date

Section III: Special Categories of Business MD
9.5Data Quality
10.Semantics & Ontologies
11.Unstructured MD
12.Business Rules
13.Metadata & Compliance
14.Knowledge Management and Business Metadata

Section IV: Putting it All Together
15.Summary

Appendix