A key aspect of the RISELab agenda is to aggressively harness data—lots of it, both historical and live. Of course bits in computers don’t provide value on their own. We need a broader context for data: where it came from, what it represents, and how it gets used. Traditionally, people called this metadata: the data about our data. Requirements for metadata have changed drastically in recent years in response to technology trends. There’s an emerging groundswell to address these new requirements and explore new opportunities. This includes our work on the broader notion of data context in the Ground system. How should data-driven organizations respond to these changing requirements?  In the tradition of Berkeley advice like how to build a bad research center and…