TY - JOUR AU - Bater, Bob AB - Business Metadata The first four chapters BOOK OF THE MONTH Capturing Enterprise introduce business Knowledge metadata and discuss its William H. Inmon, Bonnie O’Neil value to the business. The and Lowell Fryman six following are devoted SOA in Practice The Art of Morgan Kaufmann to some of the options and Distributed System Design ISBN 978-0-12-373726-7 challenges in extracting, Nicolai M. Josuttis £29.99 consolidating and O'Reilly Rating: 8/10 integrating business ISBN 978-0-596-52955-0 metadata and in managing £24.99 Bill Inmon, a well-known name in data and assuring the quality of infrastructure. Rating: 10/10 warehousing circles, teams up with two In the remaining part of the book, the co-authors to present in this book a more authors elevate the topic out of the This book is aimed inclusive view of metadata, recognising backroom and into the boardroom. at anyone in a that the stuff of data dictionaries, marts While the rest of this book is well- technical role who and warehouses is only part of the crafted, lucid and illuminating, the final is new to service corporate metadata portfolio. chapter on knowledge management oriented The authors describe how both employs so broad a brush that it leaves architecture ‘technical metadata’ and ‘business TI - Business Metadata Capturing Enterprise Knowledge JF - ITNow DO - 10.1093/itnow/bwn082 DA - 2008-07-02 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/business-metadata-capturing-enterprise-knowledge-aXGi8PmvNh SP - 27 EP - 27 VL - 50 IS - 4 DP - DeepDyve ER -