I am often asked how or in which ways metadata management relates to data governance. Firstly, data governance uses metadata to enforce policies as they relate to the control and management of data. In fact effective metadata management is essential to a successful data governance practice.
Here are some examples of metadata as it relates to data governance:
- Data Inventories
- Data Quality Metadata
- Master Data Metadata
- Business Metadata
- Governance Policies Metadata
- Stewardship Metadata
- Inventory of Applications
- Inventory of Processes
- Business Rules
- Valid Values for Data
As we can see, having a good metadata management stewardship program is imperative to achieving data governance for your organization.
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