Data Catalog Organization Strategies

With an efficient data catalog organization, you enable users to find relevant information more easily and increase the potential for reuse of provisioned data assets and data integration services.

By using the data catalog to organize and categorize your data assets, you can:

Group related queries, data services, files, and other data assets without having to physically replicate the data
Enable users to find relevant information more easily
Increase the potential for reuse of provisioned data assets and data integration services

Using the catalog’s directories and categories as grouping and classification mechanisms, you can create arbitrary taxonomies of your provisioned and integrated data assets. A given item can appear in any number of directories and categories, and you can build taxonomies of arbitrary depth and breadth.

Data Catalog Organization with Categories
Categories are a parallel set of Data Federation directories into which you can link objects in the data catalog. Use the categories feature to set up taxonomies for data items in the data catalog.
Data Catalog Organization with Links
Use links when you want an item in the data catalog to appear in more than one directory; you can use hard links or soft links for this purpose.
Data Catalog Organization of Shared Files
When you create Data Federation shares to provision files into the data catalog, Sybase recommends that you put these shared directories under /Shares.

Parent topic: Data Catalog

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