Now Is the Time To Design For User-Defined Content: It’s All About Metadata

In the Continuum of Data to information to knowledge to wisdom, it is the increasing maturity, quantity, and quality of context that enables data, information, or knowledge to elevate to the next level. Proper application of the correct semantic data structures provides electronic data with the context that is necessary to achieve the higher levels of business intelligence, which is required to synchronize cross-functional operations around current, accurate product information.