The practice of keeping all the descriptions and context about data accurate, organised, and up to date across an organisation.
The practice of keeping all the descriptions and context about data accurate, organised, and up to date across an organisation.
Metadata management encompasses metadata standards definition (what fields and vocabularies to use), metadata capture (manual entry and automated discovery), metadata quality (keeping descriptions accurate and current), metadata integration (linking metadata across systems), and metadata governance (defining who is responsible for which metadata). Effective metadata management underpins data catalogs, data lineage tools, and AI documentation requirements. ISO/IEC 11179 provides a metadata registry standard; W3C SKOS enables vocabulary management.
Organisations investing in metadata management capabilities significantly reduce the cost of AI compliance documentation — automated lineage and provenance capture converts governance from a project-level effort to a platform-level capability.
Like the cataloguing system of a museum — each artefact has a record documenting its provenance, condition, location, and exhibition history; without it, the collection is chaotic and unmanageable.
The practice of keeping all the descriptions and context about data accurate, organised, and up to date across an organisation.
Metadata management encompasses metadata standards definition (what fields and vocabularies to use), metadata capture (manual entry and automated discovery), metadata quality (keeping descriptions accurate and current), metadata integration (linking metadata across systems), and metadata governance (defining who is responsible for which metadata). Effective metadata management underpins data catalogs, data lineage tools, and AI documentation requirements. ISO/IEC 11179 provides a metadata registry standard; W3C SKOS enables vocabulary management.
Organisations investing in metadata management capabilities significantly reduce the cost of AI compliance documentation — automated lineage and provenance capture converts governance from a project-level effort to a platform-level capability.