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Summary: Great, complete book on Metadata
Review: Maybe it's because metadata has been somewhat of a mystery to me but I found this to be an excellent book. The beginning of the book starts out with the fundamentals and takes you through detailed architecture and implementation. Even the project plan and tool evaluation checklist are valuable. Especially appreciated is the way the book relates the various tools, technologies, procedures and standards together. The author also makes effective use of practical examples and his experience. You get the feeling that the book was written by one person, who knows what they are talking about, instead of the many contributors that so often collaborate on other books. Even though the book was written before the MDC/OMG merger, the author correctly predicts that they will merge and a single meta model will emerge. The book is also up to date enough to explain the relevance of XML to metadata.
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Summary: Great, complete book on Metadata
Review: Maybe it's because metadata has been somewhat of a mystery to me but I found this to be an excellent book. The beginning of the book starts out with the fundamentals and takes you through detailed architecture and implementation. Even the project plan and tool evaluation checklist are valuable. Especially appreciated is the way the book relates the various tools, technologies, procedures and standards together. The author also makes effective use of practical examples and his experience. You get the feeling that the book was written by one person, who knows what they are talking about, instead of the many contributors that so often collaborate on other books. Even though the book was written before the MDC/OMG merger, the author correctly predicts that they will merge and a single meta model will emerge. The book is also up to date enough to explain the relevance of XML to metadata.
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Summary: Meta Data made doable
Review: This book is as complete a guide to implementing meta data as any on the market. The book discusses what you need to have in place to make a meta data implementation successful.Many of the points made in this book are relevant, not just for meta data, but for the data warehouse as well. This book should be mandatory reading for data warehouse architects and data warehouse project managers as well as those who have front-line responsibility for implementing the meta data repository.
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Summary: Meta Data made doable
Review: This book is as complete a guide to implementing meta data as any on the market. The book discusses what you need to have in place to make a meta data implementation successful. Many of the points made in this book are relevant, not just for meta data, but for the data warehouse as well. This book should be mandatory reading for data warehouse architects and data warehouse project managers as well as those who have front-line responsibility for implementing the meta data repository.
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Summary: Building and Managing the Meta Data Repository
Review: This is the best technical book that I've read! This book walks through the fundamentals of meta data. Then it has all of the technical deliverables that you would use for a project and the sequence that you would use them in. Physical meta data models, meta data integration tool evaluation, and a project plan. The war stories that David Marco wrote are informative and fun.
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Summary: Breaking ground in a mission-critical area
Review: While metadata as a concept has been around a while in academic circles, David Marco has published a very businesss-focused and practical book on using it in a commercial context. Includes thorough discussions on business case, technologies, staffing, project planning, and more. As project manager for a metadata repository at a Fortune 50 company, this was the most useful book I found.
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