Everyone knows metadata is important. However, how many know why – or even what – it is? As it turns out, metadata is important enough that understanding its role in an enterprise – and getting control of it – can improve efficiency, save money, and offer a bigger picture of an enterprise’s needs and operations. However, enterprises need to overcome their metadata challenges and resolve them in order to mine data properly . Amnon Drori, CEO of Octopai describes how enterprises can get on top of their metadata issues.
Keeping metadata accurate and on point is essential, but in practice, metadata is often given the short shrift. Unless an enterprise is vigilant about its metadata policies, the caches of data and new databases created over the years could land them in trouble. In addition, the new GDPR rules have made understanding metadata a requirement.
There are several ways to handle it. One method would be to go through the sources of data and check all the metadata labels, ensuring that they stick to the rules. For even a mid-sized enterprise, this will require a lot of labor, time and money.
An alternative is to use search systems that are able to compensate for metadata issues. Such automated search systems are able to find data using multiple, or many, metadata labels, by examining not just the label, but also the nature of the data itself. Thus, an automated intelligent search system will be able to figure out that all the iterations of particular information are the same – regardless of how it is labeled.
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