Toward a Better Understanding of Metadata – Program Initiation
Today’s Metadata Management conundrum exceeds the capabilities of any one tool, subject area, business domain, capability, competency, or person. Instead,…
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Data Professional Introspective: Comparative Data Management (Part 1)
Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 (Coming Soon) Every now and then it’s useful…
Pragmatic Data: Another Good Reason to Model Your Data
At some point in your career you have probably heard the words, “why do I need a data modeler?” Perhaps…
How to Avoid the Requirements Trap
Jason Williscroft has written elsewhere about sources of inertia that can send an EDM project sideways. In that piece he…
The Business of Data: Data-Driven Business Transformation
What it Means for Today’s Data Management Professional It’s an exciting time to be in data management. It is one…
DAMA International Community Corner: January 2016
New Year, New Start! Refreshed after the holiday break, the team at DAMA International are looking forward to a breakthrough…
Data Needs to be Made Available
There is an increasing interest in data. Big Data is a concrete manifestation, but also just the tip of the…
Toward a Better Understanding of Metadata – Examples of Metadata in Business
This is the second in a series of articles on improving people’s understanding of a widely misunderstood term – “metadata”…
Toward a Better Understanding of Metadata – Metadata Defined
Metadata is all about integration of data across the various levels of data management abstraction (e.g., Zachman Framework) – business,…
Data Cleansing vs Data Maintenance: Which One Is Most Important?
There are always two aspects to data quality improvement. Data cleansing is the one-off process of tackling errors within the…