Metadata Solutions: Using Metamodels, Repositories, XML, and Enterprise Portals to Generate Information on Demand

Description: I've always been amazed at how much the level of detail varies in technical books. Some books seem to be quite popular even though they don't tell us much...others tell us plenty but don't seem to be popular. This book, Metadata Solutions tries to tell us as much as it can about the world of metadata. Sometimes this may turn people off, but it kept me interested. I think my absolute favorite part was Part V, the section that started with an example of a "A Typical Metadata Disaster" (chapter 21) and then showed various ways of solving it...starting with a centralized metadata repository,then an "integrated architecture", then an "information directory", metadata interexchange (XML), a standalone metadata store (an Access db in this example), and an Enterprise Portal. I don't know of any other book that takes the time to illustrate many types of solutions, with many types of products, all for the same problem. I didn't give the book 5 stars because there were some sections which I thin .. ISBN: 0201719762 Release Date: 14 August, 2001 List Price: $44.99 Author: Adrienne Tannenbaum Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional Last Updated: 06/26/2003

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