Practical Metadata

I met Lieutenant General Steven Boutelle in August 2004 when I was speaking at the Army Knowledge Management conference in florida. He had read and liked my book on the semantic web. He was kind enough to actually kick-off my talk by exhorting the packed audience to listen carfefully to what I had to say. An article came out today where he discusses his current priorities and metadata ranks right up there! It is clear from the article that he both understands metadata (specifically his comments about authoritative data sources) and how critical it is in an SOA environment. Makes me proud to be a former Army Intelligence Officer... ;^)