Metadata management for information control and business success - Tozer, Guy V. (Artech House, 1999)
"Artech House computing library.". - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
The Concept of Metadata -- - Information in business--an overview -- - Common factors affecting data quality -- - Data flexibility and responsiveness to business change -- - Active IM -- - Information management processes -- - Data and metadata -- - Information technology--science, engineering, or black magic? -- - IT organizations and responsibilities -- - Metadata entity types -- - Introduction to the enterprise metamodel -- - The importance of metadata -- - The Challenges of Information Management -- - Challenge 1: Recognizing the fallacy of software engineering -- - The evolution of software engineering -- - Challenge 2: Distinguishing between data and information -- - Challenge 3: Recognizing data/application independence -- - Challenge 4: The information overload problem -- - Challenge 5: Effective classification of information -- - Occam's dilemma--recognizing necessary complexity -- - Metadata analysis -- - Establishing a Common Basic Metamodel -- - Entities -- - Attributes -- - Classification -- - Relationships -- - Domains -- - Events -- - Metadata in the Business -- - Managing the Metadata -- - The principles of metadata management -- - Metadata management roles and responsibilities -- - The responsibilities of the metadata manager -- - Scalability of metadata management activities -- - The Role of Metadata in Application Development and Support -- - Metadata and the management of consistency -- - Developing a component-driven approach -- - The price of reusability -- - The metamodel library -- - Case study 1: Matrices -- - Case study 2: Work planning -- - Case study 3: Control loops