March 7, 2007

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Level: Advanced

Metadata has proliferated so much that it needs ITS OWN metadata in order to be useful and accessible. Today’s metadata solution implementations generally involve a combination of one or more of the following metadata solution architectures:

• Metadata created and input by individuals
• Content management, for that which is being clarified by the metadata
• Taxonomy based metadata query and retrieval
• Marketplace metadata solutions with a predefined architecture and functionality

In addition, the metadata itself typically is used to categorize and access whatever has been deemed to be within scope at the time. And unfortunately, many of these limited scope metadata solutions are implemented over and over again, each implementation having a different focus but also overlapping with those that already are in existence.

Today’s metadata needs a rebirth. This discussion will overview a new environment and discuss the way to get there.

Adrienne Tannenbaum is the author of the foremost technical reference books within the metadata world: Metadata Solutions: Using Metamodels, Repositories, XML, and Enterprise Portals to Achieve Information on Demand (2001, Addison Wesley) and the very first book dedicated to metadata repositories, Implementing a Corporate Repository: The Models Meet Reality (1994, Wiley). She has been working with data issues throughout her extensive IT career and is a recognized lecturer and instructor focused on Metadata Solution implementation.

Adrienne is the founder of Database Design Solutions, Inc., an information management consulting firm. Her metadata solution expertise has been used internationally within both the private and public sectors to advise and service new foundations for metadata solution revitalization.