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Five Important Considerations When Cataloging Your Data

by Lakshmi Randall•
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Here are five things to consider when thinking about cataloging your data:

  1. Clearly define the objectives of your data catalog(s) such as:
    • Archiving
    • Discovery of data in support of information management and analytics initiatives
    • Digitalization
    • Understanding data lineage
    • Building knowledge and increasing data stewardship
  2. Mapping of technical metadata to business metadata in order to facilitate understanding of data
  3. Control access to the Data Catalog. A good data cataloging product should be able to support multiple personas and protect sensitive information.
  4. If you are enabling access to data assets through data cataloging process, ensure the information is exposed at the appropriate granularity level and sufficient metadata is provided along with data.
  5. Metadata generated by the data cataloging product should be accessible and provide integration with enterprise metadata product and other products as appropriate.

Lakshmi Randall is an industry analyst and strategist providing independent advisory services in information management and analytics domains. She has over 19 years’ experience working for industry leaders such as Microsoft. She is a strong advocate of data preparation, and published research at Gartner on its importance to analytics. Among her clients, she has a reputation as an informative, trusted adviser who never comprises her objectivity. 

 

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