Nairobi, Kenya

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Enterprise Metadata Management & Data Discovery

This advanced training equips professionals with the knowledge and practical skills required to manage enterprise metadata, design effective data catalogs, improve data discoverability, and strengthen...

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3 upcoming sessions in the next 3 months

Oct 26 - Oct 30
Nov 23 - Nov 27
Dec 28 - Jan 01
Programme Overview
Training Description

Who Should Attend

  • Data engineers
  • Business intelligence professionals
  • Data analysts
  • Information management professionals
  • Database administrators
  • Enterprise architects
  • Data quality professionals
  • Privacy and compliance professionals
  • AI governance professionals
  • IT managers
  • Digital transformation professionals
  • Professionals responsible for enterprise data assets and governance
 
 
 
Session Objectives
  • Understand the principles and value of metadata management
  • Learn to implement enterprise metadata standards and models
  • Gain skills in selecting and deploying data catalog platforms
  • Establish metadata-driven data governance frameworks
  • Automate metadata ingestion and lineage capture
  • Create and manage business glossaries and taxonomies
  • Enhance data discoverability and classification
  • Enable collaborative metadata stewardship workflows
  • Integrate metadata into analytics and ML environments
  • Enforce data access and usage policies via metadata
  • Monitor metadata quality, versioning, and impact analysis
About the Course

This advanced training equips professionals with the knowledge and practical skills required to manage enterprise metadata, design effective data catalogs, improve data discoverability, and strengthen data governance. Participants will explore how organizations can create structured inventories of data assets, document data meaning and lineage, establish ownership, and improve trust in enterprise data.

The course covers metadata management frameworks, data catalog architecture, business and technical metadata, data lineage, classification, stewardship, data quality, governance, access management, and catalog implementation. Participants will learn how to establish sustainable metadata practices that support analytics, compliance, artificial intelligence, and organization-wide data-driven decision-making.

 

Curriculum & Topics

15 Topics | 75 Sessions

  • play Workshop 1.1: What is metadata and why it matters

  • play Workshop 1.2: Types of metadata: technical, business, operational

  • play Workshop 1.3: Metadata lifecycle stages

  • play Workshop 1.4: Benefits to governance, analytics, and compliance

  • play Workshop 1.5: Common metadata management challenges

  • play Workshop 2.1: Metadata modeling concepts

  • play Workshop 2.2: Standards like ISO 11179 and Dublin Core

  • play Workshop 2.3: Entity relationship modeling for metadata

  • play Workshop 2.4: Aligning metadata models with business needs

  • play Workshop 2.5: Mapping technical assets to business terms

  • play Workshop 3.1: What is a data catalog and how it works

  • play Workshop 3.2: Catalog components: search, lineage, tagging

  • play Workshop 3.3: Comparing open-source and commercial catalogs

  • play Workshop 3.4: Use cases across industries

  • play Workshop 3.5: Cataloging structured and unstructured data

  • play Workshop 4.1: Automated metadata discovery techniques

  • play Workshop 4.2: Tagging, classification, and categorization

  • play Workshop 4.3: Sensitivity detection and PII tagging

  • play Workshop 4.4: Leveraging AI/ML for smart classification

  • play Workshop 4.5: Organizing metadata using taxonomy

  • play Workshop 5.1: Techniques for ingesting metadata from sources

  • play Workshop 5.2: APIs, connectors, and crawlers

  • play Workshop 5.3: Scheduling metadata synchronization

  • play Workshop 5.4: Metadata harvesting from lakes and warehouses

  • play Workshop 5.5: Event-driven ingestion workflows

  • play Workshop 6.1: Difference between glossary and catalog

  • play Workshop 6.2: Business term definition and approval

  • play Workshop 6.3: Relationships and synonyms between terms

  • play Workshop 6.4: Integrating glossary with catalog search

  • play Workshop 6.5: Governance of glossary changes

  • play Workshop 7.1: Capturing and visualizing data lineage

  • play Workshop 7.2: Lineage at schema, table, and column levels

  • play Workshop 7.3: Upstream and downstream dependency analysis

  • play Workshop 7.4: Using lineage for impact and root cause analysis

  • play Workshop 7.5: Change propagation and notification

  • play Workshop 8.1: Roles and responsibilities in metadata governance

  • play Workshop 8.2: Setting policies and stewardship workflows

  • play Workshop 8.3: Governance models: centralized, federated, hybrid

  • play Workshop 8.4: Stewardship tools and collaboration

  • play Workshop 8.5: Ensuring metadata quality and accuracy

  • play Workshop 9.1: Data catalog components and deployment models

  • play Workshop 9.2: On-premise, cloud, and hybrid deployments

  • play Workshop 9.3: Integration with security and identity systems

  • play Workshop 9.4: Metadata storage and scalability

  • play Workshop 9.5: Access control and role-based views

  • play Workshop 10.1: Open-source options: Amundsen, DataHub, Apache Atlas

  • play Workshop 10.2: Commercial platforms: Alation, Collibra, Informatica

  • play Workshop 10.3: Feature comparison and selection criteria

  • play Workshop 10.4: Licensing and pricing considerations

  • play Workshop 10.5: Vendor support and extensibility

  • play Workshop 11.1: Faceted search, autocomplete, and filtering

  • play Workshop 11.2: Metadata enrichment for better UX

  • play Workshop 11.3: Recommendation engines in data catalogs

  • play Workshop 11.4: Bookmarking, annotations, and feedback

  • play Workshop 11.5: Personalization and usage tracking

  • play Workshop 12.1: Metadata pipeline automation using CI/CD

  • play Workshop 12.2: Policy triggers and automated validation

  • play Workshop 12.3: Scheduling lineage refresh and quality scans

  • play Workshop 12.4: Workflow orchestration with Airflow or Prefect

  • play Workshop 12.5: Alerting on stale or incomplete metadata

  • play Workshop 13.1: Linking metadata to access control systems

  • play Workshop 13.2: Tag-based access and masking rules

  • play Workshop 13.3: Conditional access based on sensitivity

  • play Workshop 13.4: Auditing metadata usage

  • play Workshop 13.5: Policy enforcement and compliance reporting

  • play Workshop 14.1: Using metadata in feature engineering

  • play Workshop 14.2: Discovering reusable data assets

  • play Workshop 14.3: Tracking model input/output lineage

  • play Workshop 14.4: Ensuring explainability and transparency

  • play Workshop 14.5: Metadata in MLOps pipelines

  • play Workshop 15.1: Trends: active metadata, knowledge graphs

  • play Workshop 15.2: Metadata interoperability and APIs

  • play Workshop 15.3: AI/ML enhancements for catalogs

  • play Workshop 15.4: Self-service and crowdsourced metadata

  • play Workshop 15.5: Building an enterprise metadata strategy

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