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Data Governance and Metadata Management: You Can’t Have One Without the Other

erwin

When an organization’s data governance and metadata management programs work in harmony, then everything is easier. Data governance is a complex but critical practice. Creating and sustaining an enterprise-wide view of and easy access to underlying metadata is also a tall order. Data Governance Attitudes Are Shifting.

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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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Maximize your data dividends with active metadata

IBM Big Data Hub

Metadata management performs a critical role within the modern data management stack. However, as data volumes continue to grow, manual approaches to metadata management are sub-optimal and can result in missed opportunities. This puts into perspective the role of active metadata management. What is Active Metadata management?

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How Metadata Makes Data Meaningful

erwin

Metadata is an important part of data governance, and as a result, most nascent data governance programs are rife with project plans for assessing and documenting metadata. But in many scenarios, it seems that the underlying driver of metadata collection projects is that it’s just something you do for data governance.

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How to use foundation models and trusted governance to manage AI workflow risk

IBM Big Data Hub

As more businesses use AI systems and the technology continues to mature and change, improper use could expose a company to significant financial, operational, regulatory and reputational risks. This is where AI governance comes into play: addressing these potential and inevitable problems of adoption.

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An inspirational week at Data Citizens ‘24: Collibra AI Governance is now live

Collibra

However, using AI without proper governance and without a complete understanding of the underlying data can lead to unwanted outcomes including model bias, inaccuracies, legal and ethical implications, trust issues, and more. Based on this pioneering use of Collibra AI Governance, McDonald’s and Expleo both won awards at DC24 too.

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Top five metadata management best practices

Collibra

Metadata management is a cross-organizational agreement on how to define informational assets. The first blog of this series discusses how businesses are increasingly realizing the need for metadata management to drive data governance, compliance, collaboration and higher data quality. The importance of metadata.