Getting started with curating and governing data
To get started with curating and governing data, understand the overall workflows, choose a tutorial, and check out other learning resources for working in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service.
If you are working with your own Watson Knowledge Catalog Lite plan, you can create one catalog with 50 assets, five business terms, and one data protection rule. You are also the owner of the only category for organizing governance artifacts like data classes and business terms.
If you are working in your organization's account with a Watson Knowledge Catalog Standard, Enterprise, or Professional plan, you must have specific roles and permissions for curating data and creating governance artifacts like data classes and business terms.
Overview of the curating data and governing data workflows
Prerequisites
Sign up for Cloud Pak for Data as a Service.
You need specific roles and permissions.
Your data curation workflow has these basic steps:
- Add data assets to a catalog:
- Add data assets one at a time in a project and then publish them to a catalog.
- Add all data assets from a connection in a project by importing metadata, and then publish them to a catalog.
- Add data assets one at a time from within a catalog.
- Enrich the data assets by assigning governance artifacts, such as business terms.
Your governing data workflow has these basic steps:
- For a data protection rule, specify how to identify the type of data to mask and the masking method. The rule is enforced immediately.
- For all other types of governance artifacts:
- Create the draft governance artifacts in a category.
- Publish the governance artifacts.
Tutorials
Each of these tutorials provides a description of the tool, a video, the instructions, and additional learning resources:
| Tutorial | Description | Expertise for tutorial |
|---|---|---|
| Curate data with Metadata import | Discover and publish data assets. | Select connections for data discovery. |
| Protect data with data protection rules | Create a rule to mask sensitive data. | Select conditions for masking criteria. |
Additional resources
Documentation
- Catalogs
- Governance artifacts
- Categories
- User roles and permission
Videos
- Videos for data stewards that show common data steward tasks in Watson Knowledge Catalog.
Samples
- Knowledge Accelerators provide industry-specific sets of ready to use governance artifacts.
Training
- Watson Knowledge Catalog Methodology is an IBM Training e-Learning course that provides an in-depth look at Watson Knowledge Catalog.
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