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What is metadata management and why is it important?

Collibra

Metadata management is a cross-organizational agreement on how to define informational assets for converting data into an enterprise asset. As data volumes and diversity grow, metadata management is even more critical to derive business value from the gigantic amounts of data. . What is Metadata? Again, a partial definition. .

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What is metadata management?

Collibra

Metadata management is a cross-organizational agreement on how to define informational assets for converting data into an enterprise asset. As data volumes and diversity grow, metadata management is even more critical to derive business value from the gigantic amounts of data. . What is Metadata? Who created this data?

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Understanding and Documenting the Basis of Retention Periods

ARMA International

A retention schedule is one of the most fundamental aspects of a records management policy. Highly regulated industries have even more of a recordkeeping burden, but those should be documented as well. However, the retention periods can often seem arbitrary or obscure. The answer “Because we have always done it that way.”

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NSA buys internet browsing records from data brokers without a warrant

Security Affairs

released documents that confirmed the National Security Agency (NSA) buys Americans’ internet browsing records without a court order. Metadata on browsing activity, which includes information about the websites visited, timestamps, and duration of visits, can be abused for surveillance in several ways, privacy advocated warn.

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Do I Need a Data Catalog?

erwin

Organizations with particularly deep data stores might need a data catalog with advanced capabilities, such as automated metadata harvesting to speed up the data preparation process. Three Types of Metadata in a Data Catalog. The metadata provides information about the asset that makes it easier to locate, understand and evaluate.

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Why You Need End-to-End Data Lineage

erwin

Not Documenting End-to-End Data Lineage Is Risky Busines – Understanding your data’s origins is key to successful data governance. Data lineage helps answer questions about the origin of data in key performance indicator (KPI) reports, including: How are the report tables and columns defined in the metadata?

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Collibra named a leader by IDC MarketScape for Data Catalog Software

Collibra

“Collibra’s foundation in data governance gives users the ability to document and manage all metadata assets and to assign ownership, attributes, and other responsibilities to strictly define things such as prioritization, access, rights management, and terms and conditions. Why chose Collibra.