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Stu Carty

Stu Carty is an accomplished, international meta-data solutions expert with over 20 years progressive experience in the enterprise software industry. Carty has worked for notable meta-data software companies such as Informatica, Data Advantage Group, R&O Software, Manager Software Products, and Reltech Group. Stu has personally given over one thousand presentations & training workshops to Global 5000 companies on enterprise meta-data management and has successfully helped hundreds of companies to evaluate, select, and implement meta-data management solutions. Stu Carty is the Founder and Principal of Gavilan Research Associates, a consulting and research firm dedicated to helping companies better evaluate and implement meta-data software solutions. For more information about Gavilan Research, please visit www.metadataresearch.com

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The term "metadata" has been used for many years now. It dates back to the 60’s, 70's and 80's, when "metadata" was used to describe the COBOL, VSAM, and IMS copybooks that ran on IBM mainframe systems. In those days, Fortune 2000 companies would purchase and implement something called a "corporate data dictionary" to help them better manage their copybook definitions, generate COBOL records and DDL, etc ... Today, the corporate data dictionary has evolved into what we now call an "enterprise metadata repository" or "metadata management system". The term "metadata" was also embraced and popularized by industry groups such as DAMA, and by software vendor initiatives from IBM (AD/Cycle), Microsoft, OMG/CWM, CDIF, and others. The term "metadata" is also widely used within the geospatial, document management, and military software markets.