GARTNER® Quick Answer: What Is Active Metadata?

Metadata is data that describes various facets of data assets, providing the context necessary to use and interpret this data and improving our understanding of it throughout its entire lifecycle. We can talk about business, technical and operational metadata, depending on the source of origin, and we can also identify multiple uses for metadata. It could be said that data without metadata is meaningless, which is why its management is so important.

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