Chapter 3. Using Metadata - The Key Points of this Chapter

• Metadata are useful only when they help an organization in a tangible manner. From a practical perspective, metadata can be used to assess and improve technical systems, data management, and data reporting and use.
• Data profiling uses many of the metadata items in this chapter to characterize the quality and other features of a data set.
• Business rules describe the policies and guidelines an organization has established to manage its businesses processes, data elements, and data sets related to those processes.