Metadata Scanning
A repository object that represents an external data source from where scanners extract metadata.
What is a resource?
The process of examining data from existing data sources and obtaining statistical information about that data.
What is a data profiling?
Serves as a central storage location for structural metadata extracted from data sources and for descriptive metadata added by users.
What is a data catalog?
The process of discovering the functional meaning of data in the data sources based on the semantics of data.
What is Data Domain Discovery?
A basic set of ideas used to develop a larger plan.
What is a framework?
Identifies the type of source system.
What is a resource type?
A profiling result that provides statistical information on the frequency of values contained within the asset.
What is value frequency?
Metadata that describes the purpose or intent of a data asset. Typically added by users.
What is descriptive metadata?
The process of accepting or rejecting data domains for assets.
What is Data Domain Curation?
The management and oversight of an organization's data assets to help provide business users with high-quality data that is easily accessible in a consistent manner.
What is Data Stewardship?
Where you configure the schema(s) that you need scanned from the resource.
What is the "metadata load settings" tab in resource configuration.
Uses machine learning techniques to cluster similar columns and identify the most likely matches and is one of the key factors used for suggesting data domains.
What is data similarity?
Metadata extracted from a data source that describes the structure of the a data asset.
What is structural metadata?
Logical names for similar data domains.
What are Data Domain Groups?
The primary and highest authority organization for information governance in an organization, responsible for oversight, support and funding of information governance activities.
What is the Steering Committee?
Business terms are scanned to EDC via this type of resource.
What is Axon?
The user can track the metadata changes of a data source in the catalog after enabling this feature for the resource.
What is Track Data Source Changes?
ISO's Metadata Registry Standard which provides a framework for defining a Metadata registry.
What is the ISO/IEC 11179?
A specialized formula for matching text strings that follow a pattern.
What is a regular expression?
Directives that codify principles and management into fundamental rules.
What are policies?
When you run a scan on resources for some resource types (e.g., reporting, ETL), you need to ensure that the lineage correctly maps using this capability.
What is Connection Management?
This service runs profiles in the Informatica domain and generates profile results for resources that are set up to fetch profile metadata.
What is the Data Integration Service?
Used to document an organization's business concepts and terminology, definitions and the relationships between those terms.
What is a business glossary?
Configure minimum percentage of source rows and minimum number of source rows as this for data domain match.
What is Conformance Criteria?
This landmark law secures new privacy rights for California consumers.
What is the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)?