Search the nascent giant of Enterprise 2.0

The role of search is expanding fast. As Web-type search moves from the Internet to inside the Enterprise for semantic analysis, it begins to identify facts inside documents, combines the information with structured databases, and provides true knowledge discovery.

As analytics are increasingly derived from search, users can relate concepts to enable people to make decisions and get completeness and overview — on the fly — to provide, in essence, search-powered business intelligence (BI). The mega trends of Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and the Semantic Web give search more content to consider, and much more power.

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Defining Metadata Ethics

Earlier this year we discussed in this space the ways in which the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure have been amended to address the inadvertent disclosure of privileged material. In recommending these amendments, the advisory committee relied in part on the large volume of electronically stored information and, in particular, the metadata accompanying those stores of electronic data.

Metadata is the term given to embedded electronic data that can be used, for example, to identify, discover and review information relating to a document’s editorial history. By reviewing metadata, one may be able to uncover previously deleted text, comments inserted in a document, the identity of persons who have worked on or viewed a document and the dates and times when they did so. Some of this information may be privileged or protected.

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Knowledge: The Essence of Metadata: Metadata 2.0

Have you read or seen much on the next evolution of the Web called Web 2.0? Web 2.0 is a collection of technologies and frameworks that enables collaboration from a social perspective. We can see this transformation from Web 1.0 to the more collaborative Web 2.0 all around us. The success of Wikipedia, Folksonomies, RSS and Weblogs are undeniably changing every aspect of our lives. The Internet and associated technologies are constantly evolving. Within the world of metadata, we have seen three such transformations. After studying the Web 2.0 environment, I believe the next transformation is clear.

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Metadata Management & Enterprise Architecture: Understanding Data Governance and Stewardship, Part 2

Data stewardship is the function that instantiates and controls the execution of a data governance program. Data stewards are those individuals charged with the careful and responsible management of metadata and data entrusted to their care. Stewards are not the owners of the data; they are responsible for ensuring that the data and its metadata are accurate, accessible, usable and current. The data steward acts as the conduit between IT and the business. The data steward (which is often not just one person, but a collection of people) aligns the business needs with the IT systems providing both decision and operational support. The data steward has the challenge of guaranteeing that one of the corporation’s most critical assets – its data – is used to its fullest capacity.

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Troux pitches Enterprise Architects

Troux Technologies on Monday is releasing an update to its repository software, part of a wave of tools designed to give IT executives better control over projects.The company’s Actionable Enterprise Architecture (AEA) Platform can now output information stored in the Metis repository and put it into the Cognos reporting format, according to company executives.Repositories to store metadata appear to be of growing importance, particularly in regards to governance around services-oriented architectures.

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