10 February 2009

🛢DBMS: Metadata Repository (Definitions)

 "A database or storage medium where Metadata are stored and easily accessed by people in an organization." (Margaret Y Chu, "Blissful Data ", 2004)

"A centralized database containing metadata captured from around the enterprise." (Sharon Allen & Evan Terry, "Beginning Relational Data Modeling 2nd Ed.", 2005)

"A database where metadata are stored as structured data that can be easily accessed and queried by business and technology workers." (Danette McGilvray, "Executing Data Quality Projects", 2008)

"A container of consistent definitions of business data and rules for mapping data to their actual physical locations in the system." (Judith Hurwitz et al, "Service Oriented Architecture For Dummies" 2nd Ed., 2009)

"A database constructed for the purpose of storing, managing, and making available metadata." (David C Hay, "Data Model Patterns: A Metadata Map", 2010)

"A container of consistent definitions of business data and rules for mapping data to its actual physical locations in the system." (Marcia Kaufman et al, "Big Data For Dummies", 2013) 

"A metadata repository is a software tool or database used to store and manage metadata." (Piethein Strengholt, "Data Management at Scale", 2020)

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