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How to Build a Metadata Plan in Five Steps

AIIM

Metadata resides at the center of many of the essential aspects of content management. In addition to helping organize and classify content, Metadata enables good findability, can trigger workflow and transactional processes, reveals document usage patterns and history, and helps establish retention and disposition events.

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Leveraging Metadata for Enhanced Information Governance 

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Organizations are inundated with vast amounts of data—managing this data efficiently is crucial for compliance, productivity, and overall business success. Enter metadata—a powerful tool that can revolutionize your information governance strategy. The Power of Metadata So, what is metadata? Which one would you choose?

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Active metadata for your business value

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Managing metadata is even harder. So why do I need to care about metadata? What is the value of metadata? Active metadata will help you answer this question. Curious about what active metadata is and how it can help. What is active metadata? Traditional metadata is like a static description of your data.

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Data Governance and Metadata Management: You Can’t Have One Without the Other

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When an organization’s data governance and metadata management programs work in harmony, then everything is easier. There’s always more data to handle, much of it unstructured; more data sources, like IoT, more points of integration, and more regulatory compliance requirements. Metadata Management Takes Time. What Is Metadata?

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Revenge of the Metadata Nerds

AIIM

A variety of Nick Burns characters have also long lectured on the importance of metadata. Metadata is another area in which we’ve all had unrealistic expectations that users would help us with this key task. I’m John Mancini, and I have neglected my metadata responsibilities. Revenge of the metadata nerds!

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Directive M-19-21: What it is and How to Achieve Compliance

AIIM

Read on to learn what this directive is, who it impacts, and seven factors necessary to achieve compliance. 7 Factors Necessary to Achieve Compliance. Permanent federal records AND appropriate metadata must be created, managed and maintained in electronic format by 2022. 7 Factors Critical for M-19-21 Compliance.

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7 Benefits of Metadata Management

erwin

Metadata management is key to wringing all the value possible from data assets. However, most organizations don’t use all the data at their disposal to reach deeper conclusions about how to drive revenue, achieve regulatory compliance or accomplish other strategic objectives. What Is Metadata? Metadata Answers Key Questions.

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