Data Catalogue and Uses

[Abhiram.m]

Data Catalogue

• A data catalogue is an organized inventory of data assets in an organization.
  
• Its a collection of metadata, combined with data management & search tools, that helps analysts and other data users to find the data that they need.
  
• It provides a single place where all of the organization's data can be catalogued, enriched, searched, tracked and prioritized whether big or small, internally or externally sourced, available as files, databases or APIs.
  
• It serves as an inventory of available data & provides information to evaluate the fitness of data for intended uses, by providing a single view across all data of interest to a user, regardless of where the data is stored and where it was sourced from.
  

 
Purpose

• It helps data professionals collect, organize, access & enrich metadata to support data discovery & governance. 
  
• It enables users to search through various data assets available within the organization's data platform, in a manner similar to that of search engines, which will enable them to fetch the necessary data from the desired location. 
  
• Users can get important details of the available data assets such as details of metadata, type of asset, relationship between various data assets, dependency between data assets etc.