The Meta-Data Professional Organization (MPO) is a non-profit, international professional association comprised of business and IT professionals in all areas of meta-data practice, including administrators, developers, architects and managers.

The MPO brings together individuals with interests, expertise, or hands-on experience in meta-data use from all areas of private and public enterprise throughout the world and seeks to disseminate technical and professional information to meta-data practitioners of all levels of experience.

The MPO provides meta-data professionals with a community that fosters discussion, advancement and increased understanding of meta-data as it is applied in the field. 

Our Goals

The MPO endeavors to:

• Provide practical advice from other practitioners
• Catalog links to other meta-data knowledge and resources
• Host an on-line community for meta-data practitioners to connect and share experiences in an open environment
• Provide best practices for every walk of meta-data
• Act on behalf of the user and development communities to provide a united voice to vendors about meta-data issues
• Be the premier resource for meta-data know-how