On Metadata Management Technology: Status and Issues.
Won Bae Kim · The Journal of Object Technology · 2005
Metadata captures the semantics of data in disparate data sources in an integrated enterprise information system.As such, there has long been a universal agreement on its importance.However, there are only a small number of vendors that offer metadata management systems as a separate product.In this article, I review the status of metadata management technology and vendors, and outline some of the key issues that are beyond the capabilities of metadata management products and are in the domain of consulting services.