Data Dictionary assignment

Class,

For the “Building a Data Dictionary” exercise that I asked you on Friday to do over the weekend, here’s some additional detail we didn’t have time to cover in the classroom:

1) A data dictionary is another component of metadata.

2) It’s a metadata repository, that catalogs all the details pertaining to the metadata.

3) Cataloging your metadata in a data dictionary will make both your life, and that of anyone else using this spreadsheet, much easier!

4) So, your assignment is to practice interpreting the metadata for the spreadsheet, and create a data dictionary for the exercise spreadsheet.

5) Remember, metadata is data about data. So you are not cataloging any data about cars themselves, only the data related to the fields used to describe the cars.

If you have any questions as you work through the exercise, email me and I’ll point you in the right direction.

Professor Pote