Standards Are Top of the List

By Melody Smith|October 28th, 2010|metadata, News, Standards, Taxonomy|Comments Off

October 28, 2010 – Lack of standards, applications built without considering data sharing, and a lack of a metadata warehouse all make data integration difficult. What can make it easy, or, at the very least, easier? According to Ted Friedman, vice president at Gartner and member of the research firm’s information architecture team, the five keys to making data integration both successful and easier are Standardization, Diversification, Unification, Leveraging data-integration technology to its fullest, and Governance. No one here is surprised that standardization made the top.

This news was brought to our attention by IT Business Edge in their article titled, “Making Data Integration Easier.” Of course, we’re all about standards when it comes to data integration. Access Innovations is one of a very small number of companies able to help its clients generate ANSI/ISO/W3C-compliant taxonomies.

Melody K. Smith

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About the Author: Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.

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Standards Are Top of the List