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DESCRIPTION:Click for Latest Location Information: http://edw2010.wilshireconferences.com/sessionPop.cfm?confid=38&proposalid=2270\nSuccessful 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:\n<ul>\n<li>The massive amount of metadata to be derived from old technologies like COBOL to the latest data integration and business intelligence technologies</li>\n<li>The ever increasing number of vendors and tools involved in any given market (e.g., Business Intelligence)</li>\n<li>The increasing levels of competition between vendors (e.g., IBM has DI/ETL, BI and MM solutions, as does SAP, as does Oracle, etc.)</li>\n<li>The increasing pace of version releases and radical changes from vendors/tools (and thus the metadata which is available)\n<li>The multiplication of metadata interface technologies C++, Java SDK, COM base, XML, native</li>\n<li>A vendor's legal rights to various metadata interfaces, formats, etc.</li>\n<li>The need for metadata coverage/completeness, complexity, as well as parsers and compilers to extract linage from virtually any transformation language and expression</li>\n<li>The need for scalability to support massive metadata repositories as sources and incrementally harvest only changes</li>\n<li>The implications which harvesting poses for post harvesting metadata integration with metadata stitching and metadata version and configuration management.</li></ul>
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SUMMARY:The Fine Art of Metadata Harvesting
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