SchemaLogic Copyright 2004 All rights reserved. Metadata Manifesto: Integration, Reconciliation and Change of Enterprise Metadata "The effectiveness of a system for accessing information is a direct function of the Intelligence put into organising it." Elaine Svenious, The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organisations (MIT Press, 2001.) Peter Hallett [email protected]206-280-7475 e American Society for Information Science and Technology, NW Chapte "The Impact of Ubiquitous Information" May 15, 2004 University of Washington
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SchemaLogic Copyright 2004 All rights reserved.
Metadata Manifesto:Integration, Reconciliation and Change
of Enterprise Metadata
"The effectiveness of a system for accessing information is a direct function of the Intelligence put into organising it."
Elaine Svenious, The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organisations (MIT Press, 2001.)
TYPICAL SITUATION Heterogeneous systems; accidental architectures Interoperability/integration projects are costly & slow Federated Search complicated by different terms &
taxonomies (semantics and structures) No governance or re-use process over metadata
PAIN (BUSINESS IMPACT) Finding distributed info is hard (unsatisfactory Search or
Navigation) Combining data is hard; diff versions of truth (bad reporting/BI) IT is slow to respond (delays innovation & time-to-market) Data quality/risk exposure (errors, failed audit)
"Firms should seek one version of the truth by ensuring that common data and metadata are shared across applications to guarantee consistency." John Van Decker, META Group
"Development of a consistent set of metadata schema and quality control of the same remain the most critical elements associated with content creation and capture."
Andrew Warzecka, META Group
"Companies are beginning to experience taxonomy creep, as they deploy multiple content management systems across the enterprise and the frequency of taxonomy updates required by these distributed systems accelerates."
Vision: Coordination, Visibility, Re-use and Evolution via Active Repository & Meta-Model
Technical Outcome Catalog of syntax & semantics across IT A visible, rationalized and unified meta-model Enterprise-standard Taxonomy; re-use across
apps Vocabularies/Thesauri available to Search
systems Collaboration & dependency analysis Rules-driven change mgt and auto-
synchronization
Business Outcome Easier to find information (“findability”) Faster, more accurate reporting (intelligence) Greater responsiveness (business agility) Control & transparency (governance)
Ride the coattails of a funded project Portal Project Content Management System roll-out Business Intelligence initiative, ala "360O View of Customer" Federated Search project
Utopian ideal? No, the CFO needs metrics (how make money, save money?)