Build & Curate Your Catalog
Manage objects, glossary, dictionary, processing, usages, campaigns, MetaBot, and data quality.
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Manage Your Objects
Define and represent data quality
The objective and subjective dimensions of data quality (per DMBOK), and how to represent them in DataGalaxy across the Glossary's functional view and the Dictionary's technical, time-series view.
Manage golden links
What a golden link is in a 360° catalog, who can create one, how it appears in the Implementation tab, lineage, and service panel, and how to set or remove one.
Relationships between catalog objects
The full reference table of logical and physical link types between catalog object types — Glossary, Dictionary, Processing, and Usages — with what each relation looks like in both directions.
Link objects
The four ways to link objects across modules — via the object sheet's tabs, source-imported properties, suggestions, or shortcut attributes — with the exact steps for each relation type.
Create an object
The three ways to manually create an object, the required and optional fields in the creation modal, and how owner, steward, and technology defaults get pre-selected.
Clone objects
Create a copy of a Glossary, Usage, or Dictionary object — including a structure or a field — or clone a data processing flow, and see exactly what gets copied along with it.
Move an object
Change an object's parent from list view or the service panel — available for objects in any module that can have a parent.
Bulk-edit objects
Edit attributes and links across several selected objects at once, merge Glossary objects together, or delete a batch of objects — all from table view.
Recipes & best practices
Model SQL Queries
Model SQL selection and management queries in DataGalaxy while balancing lineage detail and query organization.
[Recipe] Model your glossary
Model your glossary by proximity or by urbanization, and weigh the constraints before you choose.
[Recipe] Build your application catalog
Map the application layer of your information system: describe applications with the Uses module and group them into clusters.
[Recipe] Refining your glossary
A two-step approach to refine a glossary: sequence the classification (flat view, repositories, specific concepts), then manage object life cycle and editing rights.
[Recipe] Compare dictionary & glossary
A short recipe comparing the glossary (business terms and indicators) and the dictionary (tables, files, columns, fields) and how they link in DataGalaxy.
[Recipe] Readability of glossary objects
Tips to keep the glossary readable: limit hierarchy levels, keep 3 to 20 direct children per group, and set naming rules.
[Recipe] Rank and group your data
Organize glossary data with universes and domains to build a clear matrix view.
[Recipe] Organise your glossary
Key object characteristics to respect when structuring a glossary: unique definitions, a single parent and a single path.
[Recipe] Lineage granularity
Choose a lineage granularity that fits your use case, organization maturity, and maintenance capacity.
[Recipe] Document your message broker
A recipe to document a message broker such as Kafka in the dictionary: topics as directories, messages as files, and tracing producers and consumers.
Manage processing and usages
Input or output objects to a data processing
How to map objects as input or output of a data processing by drag and drop, and how to delete a link from the mapping.
Manage uses
How to create uses in a project and how to delete one or several uses from the detail or list view.
Create data processing items
How to create data processing items in a data processing's mapping, and the available item types (aggregate, join, filter, lookup and more).
Manage your dictionary
Technologies Overview
Set, inherit and search object technologies in the Dictionary, Data Processing and Usages.
Create Objects in the Dictionary
Create a database and its containers, tables and views by hand in the Dictionary, then open its diagram tab.
Use Physical Diagrams
Draw a relational data model with tables, columns, primary keys and links, and share it with your workspace.
Manage your glossary
Manage implementations
Link Glossary objects to Dictionary objects, create or import implementations, and remove implementation links.
Manage relationships between Glossary objects
How to create, import and delete relationships between glossary objects, and the relationships each object type can have.
Merge glossary objects
How to merge glossary objects: the steps, choosing the elements to merge, and merging several objects from the list view.
Dictionary vs glossary
How the dictionary and the glossary differ and complement each other in data mapping: definitions, purposes, and an employee example.
Automatic Glossary Generation
How MetaBot generates a glossary automatically from your dictionary or usages: entry points, the generation steps, finding generated objects, and keeping the glossary maintained.
Create synonyms
How to create local synonyms and synonym links on glossary objects, where to do it, and how synonyms help search.
Manage campaigns and workflows
Managing Workflows with the API (Campaigns)
How to create, retrieve, edit and delete campaign workflows with the DataGalaxy API: prerequisites, connection variables, teams, the triggering attribute, a full certification workflow example and the phase fields.
Using Campaigns and Workflows
How to use the Campaigns module (beta): the default lifecycle workflow, creating a custom workflow through the private APIs, creating a campaign, adding objects, the campaign process, and known bugs.
Introduction to Campaigns & Workflows
An introduction to campaigns and workflows (beta): tracking workflows on a set of objects, an example certification campaign, and how a workflow is defined.