Metadata management

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

• explain what metadata is
• maintain the information stored in metadata repositories under the direction of others

2. Working

You can:

• use metadata repositories to complete complex tasks such as data and systems integration impact analysis
• maintain a metadata repository to ensure information remains accurate and up to date

3. Practitioner

You can:

• design an appropriate metadata repository
• suggest changes to improve current metadata repositories
• understand a range of tools for storing and working with metadata
• advise less experienced members of the team about metadata management

4. Expert

You can:

• identify how metadata repositories can support different areas of the organisation
• communicate the value of metadata repositories
• set up robust governance processes to keep repositories up to date

Contains public sector information from the UK Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (https://understand-digital-data-roles-skills.service.gov.uk/), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.

Closest ESCO skills

• manage content metadata (close match)
• information structure (narrow match)

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