Metadata Management & Development

Developing organization-wide metadata consistency is not easy. Most organizations use multiple repositories to manage information, each with its own metadata schema. This approach usually results in problems such as redundant metadata fields and inconsistent granularity of metadata values. But no matter how inconsistent or redundant your metadata is now, we can help you develop the schema, standards, and governance you need.

Building an Enterprise Metadata Schema

To build an enterprise metadata schema for your organization, we will review your content repositories, controlled vocabularies, business processes, and information management goals. We will analyze all your existing metadata and define the basic set of metadata elements required to accomplish your information management goals. These goals can be as diverse are records retention and disposal to the dynamic presentation of web content. After defining the basic metadata schema, we can help you extend this structure to specialized uses such as faceted search applications or customer profiling.

Choosing Metadata Standards

We’ll help you sort through the numerous possible metadata standards and decide which best align with your organization’s business goals. We can help you determine how to apply industry metadata standards to in your organization and help you stay aligned with industry best practices.

Metadata Governance

Determining the metadata for your enterprise is just the first step in managing metadata. To ensure that metadata is applied within your organization’s content management strategy, you will need metadata governance. We can you help you define governance processes such as content lifecycle and tagging policies and procedures.