Metadata is often an afterthought, creating a challenge to content managers. Companies frequently roll out large content management systems without giving proper consideration to a vocabulary or categorisation engine and are then left with volumes of content that can no longer be located. Companies that have been down this road are left with any number of legacy document management systems. ZapThink, an XML analyst firm, estimates that many enterprises have between 8-15 sources of legacy content, with over 40 per cent of that content being redundant. Indeed, metadata is critical to long-term investment in corporate capital.

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