Highlights
- Metadata before data — the title's thesis, putting descriptions, definitions, and rules ahead of the data they govern, is structurally the MDDE position: the metadata layer (the model) is the durable asset, and getting it right first is what makes everything downstream tractable.
- Governance shifts from inspection to specification — a metadata-first stance implies quality is designed in via declared definitions and constraints rather than policed after the fact; rules as a first-class pillar, not an afterthought audit.
- Definitions are the integration point — when systems agree on metadata (what a customer is, what a key means) before exchanging data, alignment work moves to the semantic layer — the same place Data Vault puts its hardest, most valuable work.
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