Business Metadata -- The Quest for Business Understanding -- Section I: Rationale and Planning -- 1. What is Business Metadata -- 2. The Value and Benefits of Business Metadata -- 3. Who is responsible for Business Metadata? -- 4. Business Metadata, Communication and Search (BKO) -- 5. OUT; this chapter rolled into Stewardship -- Section II: How-To -- 6. How do you initiate a MD project? -- 7. Technology Infrastructure for Metadata -- 8. Business Metadata Capture -- 8.5Business Metadata Capture from Existing -- 9. MD Data Delivery -- Section III: Special Categories of Business MD -- 9.5Data Quality -- 10. Semantics & Ontologies -- 11. Unstructured MD -- 12. Business Rules -- 13. Metadata & Compliance -- 14. Knowledge Management and Business Metadata -- Section IV: Putting it All Together -- 15. Summary -- Appendix.