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| | Information Resource Management Glossary |
 | | A framework for organizing the interrelationships of data, (based on an organization’s missions, functions, goals, objectives, and strategies), providing the basis for incremental, ordered design and development of systems based on successively more detailed levels of data modelling. |
 | | A collection of interrelated data, often with controlled redundancy, organized according to a schema to serve one or more applications; the data are stored so that they can be used by different programs without concern for the data structure or organization. |
 | | One of the primary purposes of organizing the metadata is to be able to describe and communicate business and technical information to persons within the organization. |
| www.cio.gov.bc.ca /other/daf/IRM_Glossary.htm (5675 words) |
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