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A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data

metadata management

1 [colloq.] Writing down what the data is so future employees do not have to summon the one person who remembers.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The discipline of maintaining descriptive, technical, operational, and business context about data assets.

Draft

Seen in the wild · 2

The Company That Sells the Single Source Becomes a Row in Someone Else'sPlatform Tunnel Vision
We Bought Active Metadata to Avoid Deciding Who Owns the DataShiny Object Pursuit

See also

data catalogA complete index of assets nobody has agreed are correct.
data stewardshipA responsibility added to a job description, never to a calendar.