The Meta Grid Notes
Ole Olesen-BagneuxTowards decentralized metadata management
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Meta Grid: a status
Lynn Bender, organizer of Data Day Texas, did not provide me with a thumbnail without my big nose. You will have to live with that.
I’m going to be at Data Day Texas 2026, the final edition.
Last year, I had the honor of the opening keyn...
Meta Grid Perspectives for 2026
This post is about what I will be talking about in 2026, namely: Meta Grid. Enterprise metadata management must be performed empirically - logical, greenfield approaches to metadata is dysfunctional. That is why I will focus more on the Met...
The Meta Grid reality is longer than a hype cycle
Many have asked why I didn’t use the momentum I got with the meta grid to create a tech startup, a consultancy.. And it’s a fair point. I am loyal to my ideas - and the meta grid is, and can never be, a technology. But a consultancy company...
What you do shapes how you think
In engineering cultures, it is commonly thought that metamodels for enterprise technology and in particular metadata repositories are somehow neutral. But - they are not. They are shaped by the capability they seek to leverage. Therefore, w...
You will never capture it all
The first fundamental law about metadata for the enterprise is this:
Semantics are always bigger than technology
This is the absolute root cause of the problems we face when we discuss metadata, and how we manage it effectively, in the en...
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I'm the author of Fundamentals of Metadata Management (O'Reilly, 2025) and The Enterprise Data Catalog (O'Reilly, 2023). I'm calm on social media.
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