These are two areas, metadata management and governance, in that many technologies in big data space needs to innovate and evolve a lot. Some technologies does provide some limited functionality in these areas but isn't sufficient enough to be called as a solution suited for enterprises. However, recently there are some serious work being undertaken by various players in this area to address these two areas. We will discuss a bit of these in this section. Before going further, let's first understand these two terminologies in detail along with some other making more sense in this area.
Metadata is structured information that describes, explains, locates, or otherwise makes it easier to retrieve, use, or manage an information resource. Metadata is often called data about data or information about information.
- National Information Standards Organization (http://www.niso.org/publications/press/UnderstandingMetadata.pdf)
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