Creating a catalog

You create a catalog to organize your assets and collaborators.

Requirements

Required permission

Storage requirement: You must specify the IBM Cloud Object Storage instance configured during IBM Cloud account setup. If you are not an administrator for the IBM Cloud Object Storage instance, it must be configured to allow catalog creation.; The object storage that you associate with the catalog will contain files for assets that are copied into the catalog. For example, if you add local files or a notebook to the catalog, the information about those files are stored as assets in the catalog and the associated files are stored in object storage.

Procedure

To create a catalog:

Click Catalogs > View All Catalogs to get to the Your Catalogs page, and then click New Catalog.
Specify these properties:
- A name and optional description for the catalog. Catalog names must be unique. If, for any reason, you want to allow duplicate names, use the API to create or update catalogs..
- The IBM Cloud Object Storage service. A dedicated storage bucket for the catalog is automatically created
- Duplicate asset handling. By default, duplicate handling is set to allow duplicates.
Click Create. You can now add assets and collaborators to your catalog.

Enforcing data protection rules

Data protection rules apply to all governed catalogs and all assets within these catalogs. Data protection rules are automatically enforced when a catalog member attempts to view or act on a data asset in a governed catalog to prevent unauthorized users from accessing sensitive data.

However, if the user who is trying to access the asset is the owner of the asset (by default, the user who created the asset), then access is always granted. See Data Protection Rules.

Duplicate asset handling

When assets are added to a catalog, it can happen that an asset with a duplicate already exists in the catalog. You can specify what action should be taken in such a case. The choices you have are determined by the catalog default setting. Find out how you can specify duplicate asset handling in Handling duplicate assets in catalogs.

You can also create a catalog by using the Watson Data API. See .

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Parent topic: Administering a catalog