Introduction to Catalogs

A Catalog is the business data glossary, data dictionary or target data model that will be used as a reference for classifying data. A Catalog is composed of Semantic Objects (or data entities) and their underlying business concepts (or entity attributes). An organization may have multiple Catalogs. The Classify system can be trained to independently classify the same object to different data dictionaries, so a Catalog will ultimately be the linkage between the logical business glossary, and the physical meta-data in the Data Lake.

A Catalog ultimately allows businesses to move towards their data discovery and data analysis goals.