Developing a metadata strategy is necessary for a growing business to maintain and improve efficiency. Metadata is a small amount of data that is used to identify a larger collection of data (images, text, files, digital objects). It is generated each time data is collected from its source, moved through a data system, accessed by […]
Data Lineage and Metadata Management: An Innovative Approach
“Every day, companies need to track and trace data movement processes through metadata discovery and data lineage,” emphasizes Amnon Drori, CEO and co-founder of Octopai. This task has not been easy and has often frustrated Drori throughout his twenty-year career. In the past, Drori’s teams have had to spend time checking and rechecking data, a […]
The Emergence of ”Metadata Science”? Using Graph Technology for Data Modeling
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Building Data Models from Meta Models Recently, I worked with a government client on a Knowledge Graph kind of project. Being government, much of their data is public information. And, consequently, so are the data models. Instead of diagramming the same data all over again, I decided […]
Disrupting Metadata Management with Metadata Automation
The pre-digital card catalogs of libraries offer a good example of metadata (title, author, copyright, location on shelf). Metadata essentially means “data offering information about the data” or simply “data about data.” It is also often defined as “data in context,” since it supplies the “what, where, when, why, and how” of data. Metadata is […]