Conclusion

In the Web 2.0 world, it is necessary that you have a central mechanism for ensuring that different pieces of an organization’s content information landscape talk to each other. In this scenario, metadata enables content to be quickly identified, tagged, and composed or assembled automatically. Also, metadata facilitates reusing content or improving information quality. For example, metadata can encourage content reuse by reducing duplicate content and storing each nugget of content only once.

Metadata can be used very effectively in an organization’s content management workflow. By assigning a metadata such as ‘reviewed’, ‘approved’, ‘published’ or ‘expired’, an organization can control and track each content element automatically.

The role of metadata is similar to a catalog in a library. Unless you have a catalog that identifies, tags and shows you the location and availability of the books, finding a book of your favorite author in a huge array of books seems like an impossible task. Metadata is that catalog that your CMS needs to quickly identify and retrieve specific data from your vast information landscape.

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