Datawarehouse(DW) is useful for analytical processing and decision making. Metadata is critical for developing and managing DW. To illustrate the metadata, this thesis proposes taxonomies having four levels; application level, core warehouse level, user navigation level, and business level. Furthermore, this thesis uses Metadata Interchange Specification (MDIS) of Metagroup Coalition as a standard of DW metadata. On the basis of the taxononies and MDIS model, this thesis develops a DW metadata for a H company. An illustrative prototype system is implemented to demonstrate the usefulness of the MDIS metadata.
