Meta Data Integration: Maximize the Potential of 'Data about Data'
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Author(s): Maribeth Mattingly Eric Spear Barb Hope
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Presentation(s): Annual Conferences
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Abstract
The University of Maryland, College Park recognized in the 1990's that it's institutional data was an asset that needed to be managed. In this Information Age data must be turned into knowledge quickly and accurately. The University of Maryland implemented a campus data warehouse and along with it a comprehensive meta data platform for helping individuals understand the meaning and context of the data they were accessing. With limited resources it was apparent that meta data needed to be captured at a single point of entry and it needed to be available or delivered to multiple points of distribution. This paper gives an overview of how the University of Maryland Meta Data Manipulator works and how it allows for the meta data to be integrated with the data warehouse structures and the tool used to query the data.