Making a Path in the Data

February 14, 2013 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Making a Path in the Data

Enterprise metadata can be messy, and many organizations choose to ignore it – sort of a Scarlett O’Hara mentality of “I’ll deal with it tomorrow.” The real angst stems from having no metaprocess information or higher level process descriptions.

This interesting news was brought to us by BeyeNetwork in their article, “Lack of Metaprocess Information Impedes Ability to Collect Enterprise-Wide Metadata.”  Metaprocess is like hierarchy or ontology. The view of a domain hierarchy reveals the similarity of relationships and their interaction among concepts. It illustrates the concepts and their relationships so that the user more easily understands its coverage. Metaprocess provides a path or a map.

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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.