Fundamentals of Metadata Management: Uncover the Meta Grid and Unlock Data, Information, and Knowledge Management

by Ole Olesen-Bagneux

Overview

Whether it's to adhere to regulations, access markets by meeting specific standards, or devise data analytics and AI strategies, companies today are busy implementing metadata repositories—metadata tools about the IT, data, information, and knowledge in your company. Until now, most of these repositories have been implemented in isolation from one another, but that practice lies at the core of problems with data management in many companies today.

Author Ole Olesen-Bagneux, chief evangelist at Actian, shows you how to masterfully manage your metadata repositories by properly coordinating them. That requires a data discovery team to increase insights for all key players in enterprise data management, from the CIO and CDO to enterprise and data architects. Coordinating these repositories will help you and your organization democratize data and excel at data management.

This book shows you how.

• Learn what metadata repositories are and what they do
• Explore which data to represent in these repositories
• Set up a data discovery team to make data searchable
• Learn how to manage and coordinate repositories in a meta grid
• Increase innovation by setting up a functional data marketplace
• Make information security and data protection more robust
• Gain a deeper understanding of your company IT landscape
• Activate real enterprise architecture based on evidence

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781098162825
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	09/09/2025
Pages:	247
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.19(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Ole Olesen-Bagneux holds a BA, MA, and PhD in library and information science from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, where he has also lectured. His award-winning scientific work has been published in prestigious journals such as Philosophy and Literature, Knowledge Organization, and The Information Society. He is also the author of The Enterprise Data Catalog (O'Reilly).

Ole has substantial industry experience from large, complex organizations, where he has worked with data and information architectures from strategic leadership positions. He has also consulted for numerous organizations via his own company, Searching for Data, particularly on the challenges of metadata management.

Throughout all of his professional work, Ole seeks to advance data and ai via the learnings of library and information science.

Ole serves as vice president, chief evangelist, in Actian.