Next Generation Data Management: Understanding and using Metadata
Dr. Mark Brady Overview:
Most organizations today suffer from data visibility problems that lead to errors, higher operating costs, and low performance. Metadata is the tool to solve all these problems. Yet, for all the talk about metadata and data tagging, few people in the field fully understand metadata and how to manage it for mission success.
In this webinar you will become a master of metadata management.
Why you should Attend:
Metadata is the lens through which we see our databases and data systems. It is also the place to perform system engineering and document data systems.
Areas Covered in the Session:
- What is metadata?
- Internal and external metadata
- The user models tell us what metadata we need
- Metadata standards
- Three types of metadata in your metadata database
- Data catalog
- Data dictionary
- Data flows
- Other things you can do with metadata
- Deeper understanding of data for the analyst through lineage
- Fault proof updates and change control
- Engineering
- Creation of data exchange standards for interoperability
- Multi-security level databases
- The internal relatedness of metadata
Who Will Benefit:
- Data scientists
- Analysts
- Programmers
- Data Systems Engineers
- Database Administrators Data Managers
Speaker Profile
Dr. Mark Brady is the former Chief Data Officer of the US Space Force, Chief Data Officer of the Air Force Space Command, Data Architect for the Department of Justice and Information Architect for the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). In these roles, he established the first data management programs and data policies for all four organizations and also contributed to the development of policy for the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA). He also helped established electronic trade standards as U.S. delegate to the United Nations, served on the White House Data Cabinet, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Big Data Council. Prior to his federal service he conducted basic scientific research in neuroscience, taught neuroscience and statistics, and conducted industrial R&D. He is an inventor and author, with a number of AI patents from this work in industry.