Metadata management & data catalog tools – how do they differ?
Using metadata management tools has become a standard in recent years. What are the most popular ones? What is the metadata itself, and why its management is so significant?
What is metadata?
Before heading on to explaining what stands behind metadata management, it's worth clarifying the meaning of metadata itself. To simplify its definition, we could call it "data that describes the data". By doing so, the metadata helps to understand the data, analyse it, and draw conclusions, which allows, for example, adjusting the communication and improving the targeting.
Metadata not only makes working with specific data easier but also helps to track it. Let's take a look at it on an example: you have an mp3 file on your phone - it's data. The metadata is the name of the album and the artist'...