Metadata is truly the cockroach of technology. Metadata has been around since the early 1970s where it described databases and systems. I still remember the IBM System VTOC (Visual Table of Contents) from the early 1980s. Metadata was highlight...

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When people think of metadata and the supporting application, they commonly refer to it as the repository. However, there are really four different classes of repositories that can be cross referenced against the various information states...

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Check out the current edition of Eweek for an article by Deborah Rothberg. Deborah provides some excellent advice for us on how to expand our impact and skills including thinking globally, having business sense, and becoming agile. My favorite i...

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We all make assumptions; we use them to guide our thinking and the way in which we view the world. The problem arises when our assumptions start to limit our thinking and our ability to see a vision of something different. We don't have to look fa...

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