SLIDESHOW: The Top Companies for Metadata Management by David Weldon via @infomgmt

Gartner has released its Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions. The report looks at nine players in the metadata product space, including leaders, visionaries, challengers, and niche players. Here’s a look at who made the quadrant, and why.

Interesting to see who they think are the visionaries and challengers.

We need open and vendor-neutral metadata services via @radar

We need open and vendor-neutral metadata services by Ben Lorica @radar - in this article he discusses Joe Hellerstein's recently sketched out a vision for open, vendor-neutral metadata services, which can give rise to many novel data products and applications, as well as lead to data-governance policies.

Article contains some great links to related documentation.  I have to agree with him and hope that some of the vision becomes fact.  When something is new we all accept that there will be some chaos, but as it becomes more mature we need standards in order to support us all going forward.

We need open and vendor-neutral metadata services via @radar

Joe Hellerstein outlines 6 reasons why the data industry should rally to develop open and vendor-neutral metadata services. He makes a solid case for how improvements in metadata collection and sharing can pave the way for many interesting applications and capabilities.

Interesting article from O'Reilly Radar.  It would be great if this were to come true but somehow I doubt it will ever happen.

Finding Maturity in Your Metadata Strategy

Metadata has always been around. There used to be a theory that organizations needed to devise one and only one way of defining a concept, making it official, and then keeping it in one place for everyone to access and use. That goal was never achieved in most organizations, and thus the information lifecycle continues to evolve. We create reference data, master data, metadata, operational metadata, business metadata and process metadata, and I guess it is all really data. Or is it?

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