Enabling Information Discovery and Access

Learn about the critical role that metadata – also known as data context – plays in enabling information sharing within the federal government, in this new whitepaper from Alanthus Associates.

Seamless and transparent sharing of information within the federal community continues to vex information managers, despite several years of post-9/11 focus on the problem. There are a wide range of best practices, but no single approach has been universally adopted.

Many believed the solution was to simply post information to internal and/or external web sites so it could be discoverable by search engines. This approach has a number of limitations, most importantly the lack of protection for sensitive data, like intelligence and national security details. In the case of confidential information, metadata – or data context – becomes the key to finding and sharing it.

Get this whitepaper which outlines a generalized technical approach to information sharing that revolves around metadata, and allows government organizations to serve the needs of both information consumers and information providers.