What Is a Data Catalog? Types, Benefits, Uses - DATAVERSITY
Advertisement Homepage > > What is...? > What Is a Data Catalog? Types, Benefits, UsesBy Michelle Knight on December 20, 2023December 19, 2023A data catalog inventories and makes critical datasets available throughmetadata management. This platform informs businesspeople about what dataset assets exist and are related, where to find them, when they appeared, who created them, and how to access them, among other insights.As centralized repositories, data catalogs aim to be relevant to users across an organization, systematically organizing and presenting selected datasets and their contexts. That way, businesses can comply with regulation, security, and privacy practices while enriching catalog entries as new datasets or data relationships become available.Corporations continuouslycuratedata catalogs to make dataset searching and selection more relevant to users.These curation processes evolve to keep up with business and marketplace changes and are guided byData Governance activities t...