Business Metadata

“Despite the presence of some excellent books on what is essentially “technical” metadata, up until now there has been a dearth of wellpresented material to help address the g rowing need for interaction at the conceptual and semantic levels between data professionals and the business clients they support. In Business Metadata, Bill, Bonnie, and Lowell provide the means for bridging the gap between the sometimes “fuzzy” human perception of data that fuels business processes and the rigid information management models used by business applications. Look to the future: next generation business intelligence, enterprise content management and search, the semantic web all will depend on business metadata. Read this book!” ””