Metadata is data that describes various facets of data assets, providing the context necessary to use and interpret this data and improving our understanding of the data throughout its lifecycle. We can speak of business, technical and operational metadata, depending on the source of origin of the data, and we can also identify multiple uses for metadata. It could be said that data without metadata is meaningless, which is why it is so important to manage it.
Discover from Anjana Data the Gartner document ‘Quick Answer: What Is Active Metadata?’, which addresses the concept of metadata and how it works.
