Ole Olesen-Bagneux
VP, Chief Evangelist at Actian; O'Reilly author of "Fundamentals of Metadata Management" (2025) and "The Enterprise Data Catalog" (2023), with a PhD in Library and Information Science from the University of Copenhagen.
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Sep 29, 2026
Ole Olesen-BagneuxGUEST
Basically, when I when I began, so basically I communicate and write and travel and talk all the time.
Ole Olesen-BagneuxGUEST
And so as a book author, I had the choice of writing a new book or updating my existing book, The Enterprise Data Catalog.
Ole Olesen-BagneuxGUEST
in a second edition, and I chose to propose a second edition at the time because I could see that many things had changed.
Ole Olesen-BagneuxGUEST
But when I look back at my proposal, I can also see that just in the span of like ten, nine, ten, eleven months, things have changed quite dramatically again.
Ole Olesen-BagneuxGUEST
And I dare say, at least for AI in the enterprise, I dare say to the better.
Lulit TesfayeHOST
So how are you seeing context effectively applied to AI, especially as it relates to the value and application of metadata? And how should how should organizations think about the relationships between these pieces?
Ole Olesen-BagneuxGUEST
And I think I see at least that many are picking up on it and some are saying that it's their own idea and I don't care about it.
Ole Olesen-BagneuxGUEST
But the very core idea behind the buzzword Metagrid is that semantics is not a greenfield discipline.
Ole Olesen-BagneuxGUEST
You can't define the semantic universe of an enterprise on a whiteboard.
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