Technical Metadata
Technical Metadata is typically used by more technical data professionals such as engineers, data operations professionals, system engineers, and general information technology analysts. Technical Metadata is information that describes the more technical aspects of data and includes key information to manage and understand the physical aspects of data. Technical Metadata includes location and formatting information across the following areas:
- Data schema: The description of the structure of the database, including tables, rows/columns, and the relationship between them
- Data dictionary: Includes data definitions, data lineage, and data quality rules
- Data lineage: The history of how the data is created, processed, and used; it is used to enable data discovery, data integration, data governance, and data analysis
Why does it matter? What matters?
Documentation of physical data assets, movement, transformations, and relationships between physical...
