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Aligning
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9TH ANNUAL Wilshire Meta-Data Conference AND THE 17TH ANNUAL DAMA International Symposium May 22-26, 2005 • Renaissance Orlando Resort at Seaworld • Orlando, Florida USA The World's Largest Vendor-Neutral Data Management Conference |
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Tuesday,
May 24 Data Warehouse and Unstructured Data From heresy to conventional wisdom, data warehouse has traveled far and fast in a few years. Today data warehousing is a way of life in most organizations. But data warehousing concentrates on only structured data—the formal, transaction based data of the corporation. In order to really open the floodgates it is necessary to open data warehousing up to a different kind of data—unstructured data. In unstructured data, emails, email attachments, spreadsheets, documents, and other forms of unstructured data are able to be integrated into the data warehouse. This presentation describes some of the challenges and opportunities in the integration of unstructured data into the data warehouse environment, from the “Father of Data Warehouse” himself, Bill Inmon. Wednesday, May 25 ACADEMIC TRACK KEYNOTE Richard Wang Winner of 2005 DAMA Academic In this presentation Dr. Wang surveys the landscape of data quality research and practice. This will include a description of the current technologies utilized by leading data quality vendors and the typical data quality issues facing today’s organizations. Then he will introduce the MIT perspective to data quality. This will include early research results, namely the Total Data Quality Management (TDQM) cycle, and the current on-going activities in data quality at MIT. Included among these will be an introduction to the data quality categories and dimensions, organizational data quality assessment, performing data integrity checks, managing information as a product, using information product maps, and designing a data quality filtering system. Wednesday, May 25 Ethics After Enron—Why Taking the High Road is Good for Data Management Bruce Weinstein Ethical questions arise in all walks of life of
course, both personal and professional, and we deal with them, for
better or worse, through our own internal compass. But with the
enormous emphasis on corporate governance and compliance in the
post-Enron era, data management professionals are being drawn ever
closer to issues of ethical ambiguity, some of which have serious
consequences beyond our own conscience. In this highly interactive
session, Dr. Bruce Weinstein—the “The Ethics Guy” you’ve seen on
CNN—takes you through a range of “ethically challenging” situations,
from small to large, and suggests a framework of “Life Principles”
for dealing with them. Thursday, May 26 Metadata Best Practices: What Can You Learn
from the Award Winning Practitioners? Todd Stephens Representative TBA Doug Stacey Nikhil Sharma Kevin McDearis Do you ever wonder how the foremost practitioners in the industry—those “Best Practice” award winners—get to be so good? Is it their technology, their strategy, the organizational support, their people? For the past 4 years, the Wilshire Metadata Award has been given to practitioners by Wilshire Conferences in recognition of outstanding metadata management. N, for the first time, all of the winners of the Wilshire Award are gathering to share their collective expertise and insight into what makes for Metadata Best Practices. This is a unique opportunity to share the secrets and strategies of the best practitioners in the industry, and compare each of their approaches. Click here for the Online Registration Form Questions
about attending? Call Wilshire Conferences
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