The Enterprise Data Catalog Improve Data Discovery, Ensure Data Governance, and Enable Innovation (Final Release)

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