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Data Quality
Design principles for metadata dictionaries that improve search, reporting, workflow routing, and long-term asset information value.
Metadata is the operating system of Information Management. Weak dictionaries produce weak search, weak analytics, and weak automation.
Design for mandatory versus optional fields carefully. Over-mandating fields drives workarounds; under-mandating fields produces empty registers.
Align metadata with real business questions: package ownership, discipline, system, area, status, and handover relevance. Every field should earn its keep.
Govern changes. Dictionaries evolve, but uncontrolled field proliferation recreates the chaos metadata was meant to solve.