Message from Dean - May 8th 2007
I am currently testing out a new version of the APF Bridge Component - If you notice any errors within this demo store please drop me a line.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.7
EAN: 9780201719765
ISBN: 0201719762
Label: Addison-Wesley Professional
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: August 24, 2001
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Studio: Addison-Wesley Professional
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Metadata is increasingly central to enterprise IT architecture, and to applications ranging from data warehousing to CRM. Finally, there's a comprehensive, start-to-finish guide to implementing metadata solutions. Leading data management consultant Adrienne Tannenbaum covers the real issues associated with bringing together data from multiple sources, identifies the key challenges to building effective metadata systems, and presents practical solutions. Tannenbaum begins by focusing on data, its relationship to knowledge, why it is so hard to locate, and how metadata can help. She reviews the key elements of a metadata solution, including metamodels, metadata stores, and repositories, and presents a complete methodology for planning and implementing a metadata solution. She reviews non-technical factors such as readiness and scoping, as well as technical issues such as architecture, exchange, and presentation. Tannenbaum compares today's leading metadata approaches and solutions, including solutions that leave metadata in place, accessing it through a common portal or gateway, as well as solutions that centralize metadata. The book concludes with a thorough discussion of managing metadata solutions and maintaining metadata quality. Throughout, Tannenbaum presents extensive real-world examples and case studies garnered from her extensive consulting experience.
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Tannenbaum clearly knows the data storage and mining industry. She has produced a book that brings together a comprehensive view of metadata and of its parent, meta-metadata.
It is rather easy to find a book on the details of XML, for example. Or on SQL and its various commercial and open source implementations. And on database design.
But all these can be regarded as lower level details. What if you have several data warehouses, each with its own DBMS catalog, and the warehouses are not from the same vendor? Plus, there are manifold, quite separate application tools that read/write to these. You want to develop a coherent integrated view of the data, hopefully by using metadata descriptors. The type of texts mentioned above are of little help here. The vendor specific books typically orient you to their product alone.
Tannenbaum has striven to fill this market gap. She explains what metadata is, and what a metamodel is. All done at a high level that frees ... Read More
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If you need to get something done check this book out. not just about metadata but also about where it is and how to use it. A good spot to check possible architectures or product designs and it has lots of actual cases
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It's about time that I found this book. I am responsible for dealing with a metadata mess in my agency and nothing out there seemed to get me clear on what the real problems are. This book not only explained what should have been done but also how to fix things. Highly recommended for those that need to do something
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This is a very good book about metadata, but I can only give it 3 stars because the author makes some very worrying (and sometimes quite amusing) mistakes.
For example, in the preface page xxii, the UML semantics for unrefined association, aggregation and generalization are *completely* wrong. So is the syntax for UML object. This is a very worrying error for a metadata book. Finally, there is the amusing quote on page 180, "if you have mastered the art of metadata by mastering the ability to think like a tool...". In England, "tool" is actually a well-known synonym for d*rk! Not the author's fault, but one would expect an editor to pick up on something like this!
Apart from these unfortunate errors, the book is well-written and very readable, and will certainly give you lots of useful information and techniques for working with metadata. Definitely one to keep on your bookshelf for reference. Well done Adrienne!
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Overall a wandering essay. Not for the novice to data management.
I recommend you take a look at David Marco's "Building and Managing the Meta Data Repository: A Full Lifecycle Guide" which I found to be much more useful and pointed.
That said, if you are suffering from insomnia definitely buy this book, too!
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