Catalog
Data Catalog
Data catalogs support the work of Data Governance by helping an organization to manage assets and their data through collection, organization, enriched metadata, and discovery. A data catalog is a catalog of metadata that helps an organization quickly and efficiently access, describe, and assemble assets and data sets to improve trust in analytics based on those data sets.
At UNCG, we catalog a variety of assets that support informed administrative decision-making including:
- Dashboards and Reports
- Data Processes
- Policies and Standards
- Systems and Databases
- Webforms
The metadata schema for each asset type is based on Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), OCLC’s Best Practices for Creating Sharable Metadata, Collibra’s available characteristics, and localized need.
The Report Catalog Data Dictionary is a detailed view of the schema built for the report catalog, list of controlled vocabularies, and additional resources. The following link is accessible to UNCG affiliates. If you are not affiliated with UNCG, please email us to request a copy. PDF: Report Catalog Data Dictionary