Comprehensive and Comprehensible Data Catalogs: The What, Who, Where, When, Why, and How of Metadata Management

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2103.07532
• Publication Date: 2021-01-01
• Authors: Pranav Subramaniam; Yintong Ma; Chi Li; Ipsita Mohanty; Raul Castro Ferna...
• Keywords: Metadata management; Metadata modeling; Mental model; Data management plan

Data management tasks require access to metadata, which is increasingly tracked by databases called data catalogs. Current catalogs are too dependent on users' understanding of data, leading difficulties in large organizations users with different skills: either make metadata easy for store and difficult retrieve, or they it but store. In this paper, we present 5W1H+R, a new catalog mental model that comprehensive the represents, comprehensible permits all locate easily. We demonstrate these properties via user study. then discuss practical guidelines implementing model. conclude models important more useful boost efforts.