Optimizing metadata enrichment of data assets

US12380074B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Thomas Hampp-Bahnmueller · Stuttgart, DE
• Peter Gerstl · Holzgerlingen, DE
• Yannick Saillet · Stuttgart, DE
• Michael Baessler · Neckartenzlingen, DE
• Albert Maier · Tübingen, DE
• Oliver Suhre · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 4, 2023
• Grant date: Aug 5, 2025
• Expiry date: Sep 9, 2043

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F16/907
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a method of metadata enrichment using an enrichment comprising multiple steps. The method comprises: determining for an input data asset a metadata value descriptive of the input data asset. Characteristics of the metadata value of the input data asset may be determined. At least one informativeness score of the metadata value of the input data asset may be computed using the determined characteristics. An execution of the enrichment step may be skipped in case an input characteristic of the enrichment step is not part of the determined characteristics. In case the input characteristic of the enrichment step is part of the determined characteristics, the enrichment step may be adapted and executed or the enrichment step may be executed without adaptation. Labels resulting from the executed enrichment steps may be combined for providing one or more labels of the data asset.