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Stage 1: Basic Metadata - Maturity Stage

Assets have simple, unstructured "Tags" used to power free-text search and can aggregate/group the assets. This level offers no information for machines or humans beyond free-text search and basic collections.

Capabilities required for this maturity stage

Simple metadata-driven asset aggregation

Businesses may experience these problems at this stage

Tag duplication

Suggested Interventions

Launch a knowledge graph platform

Low value content tagging

Suggested Interventions

Integrate AI Automated Tagging

Lack of a training corpus for AI systems

Suggested Interventions

Introduce tooling that creates structured metadata

Generate a "Silver Corpus" for AI training

Lack of a shared data model across business services

Suggested Interventions

Hold domain modelling workshops

SMEs don't see value in content tagging

Information management systems have evolved organically

Suggested Interventions

Rapidly create and test a new data model

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Structured Metadata - Maturity Stage

Where a deliberate structure is used to add meaning to metadata concepts, and the metadata conforms to a model.

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