Metadata Management Archives | LightsOnData https://www.lightsondata.com/category/metadata-management/ Practical resources, online courses, free articles and videos for data management, data governance, data quality, and business intelligence Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:59:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/www.lightsondata.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/LOD-logo-favicon2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Metadata Management Archives | LightsOnData https://www.lightsondata.com/category/metadata-management/ 32 32 142004744 From fragmented data to planetary-scale systems: why FSA/MEBS represents a step-change in enterprise modeling https://www.lightsondata.com/fsa-mebs-enterprise-modeling/ https://www.lightsondata.com/fsa-mebs-enterprise-modeling/#respond Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:59:39 +0000 https://www.lightsondata.com/?p=5801 For decades, organizations have been trying to model themselves clearly enough to build reliable, scalable, and future‑proof information systems. Yet despite thousands of methodologies, tools, and standards, we still see the same symptoms everywhere: Fragmented data Endless integration projects Competing semantics and mismatched models High IT cost for low business agilityIf we step back, it becomes obvious: we’ve never […]

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]]> https://www.lightsondata.com/fsa-mebs-enterprise-modeling/feed/ 0 5801 Critical data elements: why are they important and how to measure them? https://www.lightsondata.com/critical-data-elements-importance/ https://www.lightsondata.com/critical-data-elements-importance/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2022 02:58:23 +0000 https://www.lightsondata.com/?p=4362 Digital Age and Data ExplosionThe current industrial age known as the digital age, is characterized by an overabundance of data. The advancement in technology, decreasing cost of disk hardware, and availability of cloud storage has facilitated the collection/generation, processing and storage of large volumes of data at much lower cost. With the increasing number of […]

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]]> https://www.lightsondata.com/critical-data-elements-importance/feed/ 2 4362 What is the difference between data classification and data categorization? https://www.lightsondata.com/what-is-the-difference-between-data-classification-and-data-categorization/ https://www.lightsondata.com/what-is-the-difference-between-data-classification-and-data-categorization/#respond Tue, 03 Aug 2021 14:11:31 +0000 https://www.lightsondata.com/?p=3061 Data classification is often used as a synonym with data categorization. Are they the same? Not quite, so let's clarify this confusion as these terms are often used interchangeably when in fact they shouldn't.  Is there a difference between data classification and data categorization in the information and data environment? Some say this: "There's no difference, […]

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]]> https://www.lightsondata.com/what-is-the-difference-between-data-classification-and-data-categorization/feed/ 0 3061 7 deadly sins of data modeling https://www.lightsondata.com/7-deadly-sins-of-data-modeling/ https://www.lightsondata.com/7-deadly-sins-of-data-modeling/#respond Tue, 05 Jan 2021 16:00:29 +0000 https://www.lightsondata.com/?p=2805 Table of Contents Assumption 1: Process and Data can be detached with minimal consequencesAssumption 2: Simplicity of theory guarantees correct adoptionAssumption 3: Data Quality and Integrity is guaranteed by optimal structural data designAssumption 4: Nomenclatures fully define semantic meaningAssumption 5: All entities convey singular truth, all attributes are atomic, all relationships are trueAssumption 6: Temporality, […]

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]]> https://www.lightsondata.com/7-deadly-sins-of-data-modeling/feed/ 0 2805 9 questions to ask for data veracity assessment https://www.lightsondata.com/9-questions-data-veracity-assessment/ https://www.lightsondata.com/9-questions-data-veracity-assessment/#respond Wed, 03 Jul 2019 19:01:51 +0000 https://www.lightsondata.com/?p=1073 There are different takes on what veracity refers to. The overall consensus is that data veracity reflects the truthfulness of a data set and your level of confidence or trust in it. I’ll take this a step further and say that data veracity is your level of confidence/ trust in the data based on its […]

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]]> https://www.lightsondata.com/9-questions-data-veracity-assessment/feed/ 0 1073 Reference data needs a standard definition – here is one https://www.lightsondata.com/reference-data-needs-standard-definition/ https://www.lightsondata.com/reference-data-needs-standard-definition/#respond Wed, 05 Sep 2018 20:29:05 +0000 http://www.lightsondata.com/?p=466 When reference data comes up in discussions with other data management or data governance practitioners, we sometimes realize we mean different things or we only overlap in our definitions 80% of the time. Within a data governance conversation, this seems a bit ironic. So what is reference data, in the context of data management (let’s […]

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]]> https://www.lightsondata.com/reference-data-needs-standard-definition/feed/ 0 466 The 4 main roles of metadata https://www.lightsondata.com/the-4-main-roles-of-metadata/ https://www.lightsondata.com/the-4-main-roles-of-metadata/#comments Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:06:01 +0000 http://www.lightsondata.com/?p=531 I love metadata because of the benefits it offers. In fact, I never “metadata” \met a data\ I did not find useful (geeky joke, I know).  If you don’t have a metadata management program or initiative in place, there are a lot of reasons why you should consider investing into it. In fact, the following […]

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]]> https://www.lightsondata.com/the-4-main-roles-of-metadata/feed/ 2 531 Adapting data governance to big data in 4 areas https://www.lightsondata.com/adapting-data-governance-to-big-data-in-4-areas/ https://www.lightsondata.com/adapting-data-governance-to-big-data-in-4-areas/#respond Wed, 06 Jun 2018 22:40:15 +0000 http://www.lightsondata.com/?p=290 It’s generally accepted that any organization working with data needs to adopt data governance. Readily available frameworks, tools, and services can be adapted to the requirements and environment of your organization, yet when it comes to big data governance, the options are a bit more complex. Organizations must adapt to big data in four important […]

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]]> https://www.lightsondata.com/adapting-data-governance-to-big-data-in-4-areas/feed/ 0 290 Learn how to create a MDM change request https://www.lightsondata.com/mdm-change-request-template/ https://www.lightsondata.com/mdm-change-request-template/#respond Thu, 10 May 2018 00:25:11 +0000 http://www.lightsondata.com/?p=318 Managing and securing your organization’s master data is crucial for supporting any organizational goals which rely on data – so all of them!!! It’s also important for today’s business to work with their master data in an accurate, efficient, and well understood way.  As such, the process for managing change requests to either add, remove, […]

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