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P.A. Bernstein, S. Melnik: Meta Data Management, ICDE'04 Boston
Meta Data Problems
lData translation
lSchema evolution
lXML message translation
lApplication integration
lData warehouse loading
lER/UML design tools
lWrapper generation for SQL
lUI / 4GL generation
lDependency tracking
lLineage tracing
lInfo resource mgmt
lBinding, renaming
lSoftware build (make)
lConfiguration mgmt
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lMany data management applications primarily involve transformations of structured data