The Enterprise Data Catalog: Improve Data Discovery, Ensure Data Governance, and Enable Innovation

Combing the web is simple, but how do you search for data at work? It's difficult and time-consuming, and can sometimes seem impossible. This book introduces a practical solution: the data catalog. Data analysts, data scientists, and data engineers will learn how to create true data discovery in their organizations, making the catalog a key enabler for data-driven innovation and data governance.

Author Ole Olesen-Bagneux explains the benefits of implementing a data catalog. You'll learn how to organize data for your catalog, search for what you need, and manage data within the catalog. Written from a data management perspective and from a library and information science perspective, this book helps you:

• Learn what a data catalog is and how it can help your organization
• Organize data and its sources into domains and describe them with metadata
• Search data using very simple-to-complex search techniques and learn to browse in domains, data lineage, and graphs
• Manage the data in your company via a data catalog
• Implement a data catalog in a way that exactly matches the strategic priorities of your organization
• Understand what the future has in store for data catalogs


Author: Ole Olesen-Bagneux
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Published: 03/21/2023
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.19h x 7.00w x 0.46d
ISBN13: 9781492098713
ISBN10: 149209871X
BISAC Categories:
- Computers | Data Science | Data Modeling & Design
- Computers | Database Administration & Management
- Computers | Business & Productivity Software | Business Intelligence