The Metadata Problem Nobody Talks About: Context, Catalogs, and the CDO's Next Land Grab | CDO Matters Ep. 103
Every organization is told they need context for AI to work. Almost none of them know where to start. The answer has been sitting in their metadata all along — but most CDOs haven't connected those dots yet.
📌 In this episode:
Why your data catalog is already a source of context — and how to expose it to agentic workflows today
The semantic layer problem: definitions living in BI tools instead of governed catalogs, and why that creates risk
Why engineers and library scientists think about language completely differently — and why that gap matters for AI
Malcolm's argument that CDOs are in a…
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