R. Todd Stephens, Ph.D., is the director of Collaboration and Online Services for AT&T, located in Atlanta, Georgia. He has more than 20 years of experience in IT and speaks around the world on metadata, data architecture and information technology. Stephens recently earned his Ph.D. in information systems and has more than 70 publications in the academic, professional and patent arena. You can reach him via e-mail at Todd@rtodd.com or to learn more visit http://www.rtodd.com/.

Collaboration by Data Organizations
December 17, 2007 Much of what we call collaboration is really communicating, cooperating or coordinating our activities.

Transparency of Data Management
October 1, 2007 Transparency is the degree to which your organization communicates to your producers and consumers of data management...

Integrating a Data Management Wiki
September 1, 2007

Who Are You?
August 1, 2007

Three Little Cores
June 1, 2007

Knowledge - The Essence of Metadata
May 1, 2007

Data Quality: The Price of Entry
April 1, 2007

Life Without Metadata
March 1, 2007

Metadata's Demand-Side Economics
February 1, 2007

Metadata's Supply Side Economics
January 2, 2007

Metadata 2.0
December 1, 2006

In Metadata, Good Enough Never Is
November 1, 2006

Challenge Your Assumptions of Metadata
August 17, 2006

The Metadata of High Performance
July 20, 2006

The Long Tail of Metadata
July 12, 2006 ROI models exist for enterprise metadata, other metadata currently ignored

The Long Tail of Metadata
June 15, 2006

Collaborate 451
May 18, 2006

The Patterns of Enterprise Metadata
April 20, 2006

Metrics and the Source of all Knowledge
March 31, 2006 Take a look at your performance metrics and ask, 'When was the last time we took an action, based on this number?'

Federated Agility's Secret Ingredient
March 16, 2006

Replicating the Business Strategy of Others
March 6, 2006 A lighthearted article discussing the business models of several prominent companies, and what you can learn and perhaps apply...

Replicating the Business Strategy of Others
March 1, 2006 This lighthearted article discusses the business models of several prominent companies, and what you can learn and perhaps...

Two Compelling Metadata Strategies
February 16, 2006

The First 100 Days of Enterprise Metadata
January 19, 2006

Metadata's Annual Plan
December 15, 2005

RSS Technology - Evolution, Revolution and Extinction
November 17, 2005

Leadership in a Natural Disaster
October 20, 2005

Knowledge: The Essence of Meta Data
September 15, 2005

Metrics and the Source of all Knowledge
September 15, 2005

Organization and Classification Begins at Home
August 18, 2005

Engagement Processes Revealed
July 14, 2005

The Meta Data Support Model, Part 2
June 16, 2005

The Meta Data Support Model, Part 1
May 19, 2005

The Repository vs. The Registry
April 15, 2005

When Meta Data Galaxies Collide
March 17, 2005

Vision and Reality Hit the Meta Data Environment
February 17, 2005

The Fourth Dimension of User Classification
January 20, 2005

Reaching Critical Mass with Meta Data
December 16, 2004

Does Meta Data Matter?
November 18, 2004

Meta Data Should be Free, Perfect and Available Now
October 14, 2004

Six Degrees of Separation of Our Assets
September 16, 2004

XML Standards are an Integral Part of Meta Data
August 19, 2004

Measuring Accuracy to the Billionth of a Second
July 15, 2004

What are Your Hitching Posts?
June 17, 2004

Broken Windows, Data Quality and the Future of Meta Data
May 21, 2004

Meta Data: A Tradition Like No Other
April 15, 2004

The Meta Data Experience
March 18, 2004

The Five Disciplines of Data
February 19, 2004

Meta Data is the Great Big Book of Everything
January 22, 2004

Meta Data Management Life Cycle Reviewed
December 18, 2003

What Should You Expect from the Meta Data Vendor Community?
November 13, 2003

Meta Data and XML: Will History Repeat Itself?
October 16, 2003

Metatag – The Newest Member of the Meta Data Family
September 11, 2003

Should We Have a Meta Data Management Maturity Model?
August 14, 2003

Is the Library Card Catalog Analogy Good or Bad for Meta Data?
July 17, 2003

Selling Meta Data is Not Like Selling Kudzu
June 19, 2003

Knowledge: The Essence of Meta Data - Metacide: The Killing of a Meta Data Project
May 16, 2003 This introductory column reviews some traps that can cause a project to fail including lack of commitment, bureaucracy,...

Metacide: The Killing of a Meta Data Project
May 16, 2003

Meta Data Certification: Does it Make Sense?
May 6, 2003 A Meta Data Certification Seal of Approval would assure that the architecture would disclose the assets that exist, what...

Why is Data Architecture so Darn Hard to Implement?
April 11, 2003 Recognizing that data is a strategic asset that can be expensive to handle and easy to waste, data architecture should be the...