Every organization is told they need context for AI to work. Almost none of them know where to start. The answer has been sitting in their metadata all along — but most CDOs haven't connected those dots yet.

📌 In this episode:

Why your data catalog is already a source of context — and how to expose it to agentic workflows today

The semantic layer problem: definitions living in BI tools instead of governed catalogs, and why that creates risk

Why engineers and library scientists think about language completely differently — and why that gap matters for AI

Malcolm's argument that CDOs are in a unique position to make a "land grab" on unstructured data before someone else does

💬 The takeaway: "CDOs are in a unique position to make a land grab: the ontologists, the taxonomists, the library scientists are all over the organization without one single leader. That's your moment." — Malcolm Hawker

About the host + guest: Malcolm Hawker is a former Gartner analyst, Chief Data Officer at Profisee, Editor-in-Chief of CDO Matters, and host of the CDO Matters Podcast. Ole Olesen-Bagneux is Chief Evangelist at Actian and O'Reilly author of Fundamentals of Metadata Management (2025) and The Enterprise Data Catalog (2023) — the practitioner's reference for anyone building or governing a data catalog.

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