The Fine Art of Metadata Harvesting

Successful metadata harvesting is key to any metadata management and enterprise architecture solution. This presentation dives deeply into the challenges of metadata harvesting solutions. In particular, emphasis is places on:

The massive amount of metadata to be derived from old technologies like COBOL to the latest data integration and business intelligence technologies
The ever increasing number of vendors and tools involved in any given market (e.g., Business Intelligence)
The increasing levels of competition between vendors (e.g., IBM has DI/ETL, BI and MM solutions, as does SAP, as does Oracle, etc.)
The increasing pace of version releases and radical changes from vendors/tools (and thus the metadata which is available)
The multiplication of metadata interface technologies C++, Java SDK, COM base, XML, native
A vendor's legal rights to various metadata interfaces, formats, etc.
The need for metadata coverage/completeness, complexity, as well as parsers and compilers to extract linage from virtually any transformation language and expression
The need for scalability to support massive metadata repositories as sources and incrementally harvest only changes
The implications which harvesting poses for post harvesting metadata integration with metadata stitching and metadata version and configuration management.

John Friedrich has been working in the Information Systems arena for over 20 years. Much of his work has been on the cutting edge of modern software development, metadata management, enterprise architecture development, and data and process standardization. He has numerous successful implementations at Fortune 500 and large Government organizations. John has presented these concepts at several DAMA and meta-data conferences.

Christian has 20 years of experience entirely devoted to metadata repository technologies. He has been involved with virtually all metadata standards, more recently with the OMG CWM. He has also published numerous papers, and is a regular speaker at DAMA and metadata related conferences. He is the founder and CEO of Meta Integration in Silicon Valley (California) that he created in 1997.