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William H. Inmon (Author), Bonnie O'Neil (Author), Lowell Fryman (Author)
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0123737265 978-0123737267 October 11, 2007 1
People have a hard time communicating, and also 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 get their questions answered about the business just like you can do an internet search. The truth is, knowledge management is primitive today, and it is due to the fact that we have poor business metadata management.

This book is about all the groundwork necessary for IT to really support the business properly. By providing not just data, but the context behind the data. For the IT professional, it will be tactically practical--very "how to" and a detailed approach to implementing best practices supporting knowledge management. And for the the IT or other manager who needs a guide for creating and justifying projects, it will help provide a strategic map.



* First book that helps businesses capture corporate (human) knowledge and unstructured data, and offer solutions for codifying it for use in IT and management.

* Written by Bill Inmon, one of the fathers of the data warehouse and well-known author, and filled with war stories, 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.

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  • Paperback: 312 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 1 edition (October 11, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0123737265
  • ISBN-13: 978-0123737267
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.6 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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3.0 out of 5 stars Business Metadata 101, January 20, 2008
This review is from: Business Metadata: Capturing Enterprise Knowledge (Paperback)
The book is good for people who have very little exposure to enterprise metadata.

The Good:
* simple and effective language
* broad coverage of the subject

The Bad:
* A very "database" focussed approach - this is a little at odds with some of the latest developments in this field where Enterprise Search Engines are pushing the envelope.

The Ugly:
* The diagrams are really ugly to look at.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book on metadata, October 18, 2010
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Excellent book, wide-range introductory overview of the most metadata challenges! The authors should write the follow up to this book, something like "Technical Metadata: Is That What You Meant?" or "Integrated Metadata: Bridging the Gap Between Business and IT." The power of the metadata is in the ability to provide comprehensive picture about all stages of the business content (knowledge) in an enterprise, including the implementation of the business metadata and the ability to connect the business definitions with the databases, applications and reports that implement the business data and that what was missing in this book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good overview of metadata, June 12, 2008
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Offers a good perspective about metadata, ownership versus stewardship. Quick read and is something DBAs should be familiar with.
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team room, web services, asbestos products, master data management, corporate information factory, enabling knowledge creation, semantic spectrum, business metadata, enterprise metadata repository, information quality methodology, metadata life cycle, metadata delivery, technical metadata, corporate glossary, unstructured metadata, corporate dictionary, integrated metadata repository, information quality requirements, metadata environment, business taxonomy, metadata infrastructure, metadata project, corporate knowledge base, indirect usage, knowledge socialization
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Tom Wilson, Minnetonka Creek, Tonka Place, Existing Data, Business Objects, Data Stewardship Council, Capture Semantics, New York, Brief History of Metadata, Editing the Metadata, Governance Lite, Semantic Frameworks, Data Flux, Referenced July, The Basic Problem, Technology That Fosters Knowledge Socialization, The Wisdom of Crowds, Common Knowledge, Barker Notation, Metadata Chaos, Computer Communication Barrier, Lessons Learned, Report Series, Identical Hull, Joe Foster
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