Metadata management for distributed data sources is a long-standing but ever-growing problem. To counter this challenge in a research-data and library-oriented setting, this work constructs a data architecture, derived from the data-lake: the metadata-lake. A proof-of-concept implementation of this proposed metadata aggregator is presented and briefly evaluated.
@article{arxiv.2409.05512,
title = {DatAasee -- A Metadata-Lake as Metadata Catalog for a Virtual Data-Lake},
author = {Christian Himpe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.05512},
year = {2026}
}