Category Archives: metadata

The Proper Approach: Developing Systems Based on Models

Posted on May 7, 2013 by

A big challenge facing organizations today is ensuring the appropriate information reaches the right people so that data is used appropriately and accurately. Information is the key to business success and its proper care and treatment should be of the … Continue reading →

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What is Metadata?

Posted on January 21, 2013 by

The past two posts I’ve made to this blog have been about metadata, but I realized this morning that I haven’t really defined the term metadata here yet. I know, many of you understand the term, but I thought it’d … Continue reading →

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Challenges to Managing Metadata

Posted on January 12, 2013 by

In this posting we will continue to discuss  metadata management, taking a little deeper look at metadata and examining some of the challenges of successful metadata management. Consider the following questions: How do you ensure that you are exploiting the … Continue reading →

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Modeling Enhances Metadata Management

Posted on January 3, 2013 by

If there is to be a resurgence in metadata management, appropriate procedures and solutions will need to be put in place to bring order to the chaos that is corporate data. I’ve recently written about how I believe there will … Continue reading →

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Musical Metadata, Part 5

Posted on October 17, 2011 by

Genre can be a tricky piece of metadata to populate accurately. All MP3 files have a metadata tag known as Genre. The genre is the type or category of music for the song in question. Is it rock or country, … Continue reading →

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Musical Metadata, Part 4

Posted on October 14, 2011 by

Dealing with artist name issues… Today’s entry in the Musical Metadata series will focus on the various issues involved in managing one specific piece of metadata: artist name. The artist name is the moniker of the performer of the song … Continue reading →

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Musical Metadata, Part 3

Posted on October 13, 2011 by

Be careful about automatically populating your metadata from online databases because the information is not consistent, nor is it always accurate… In the first two installments of this series ( 1 , 2 ) we discussed how metadata can impact … Continue reading →

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Musical Metadata,Part 2

Posted on October 12, 2011 by

The music is the data, so what is the metadata? Getting the metadata correct can be one of the most important aspects of setting up your iPod (or any MP3 player) for maximum enjoyment. You see, the music is the … Continue reading →

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Musical Metadata, Part 1

Posted on October 11, 2011 by

Folks who know me know that I am an avid consumer of music. I own nearly 6,000 CDs and albums (yes, I still own vinyl records). And I have them all cataloged in a Filemaker database on my PC that … Continue reading →

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What is Production Data?

Posted on December 8, 2010 by

Today’s blog post is actually a reprint from a previous blog I wrote (that has since been deactivated). I am republishing the material because it was evidently useful enough to be cited in Wikipedia (on the page defining synthetic data). … Continue reading →

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