Disclosed is an apparatus for metadata management and collection, which includes a settings managing unit that generates setting information of data obtained from a data source, a source managing unit that generates source information associated with the data source, a job managing unit that starts or stops a data collection job based on the source information, an object collecting unit that requests an external system for a list of metadata based on the setting information and the source information, a metadata importing unit that imports metadata from the list of the metadata based on the setting information and the source information, a data downloading unit that downloads target metadata of the imported metadata based on the setting information and the source information, and a queue managing unit that generates a data queue depending on a request of the job managing unit.