Managing Data Product Metadata

Keeping Data Product metadata up to date is essential to ensure other users can find them, understand them and trust them.

There are two main ways to edit the metadata that describes a Data Product.

• Data Catalog UI

• APIs

Editing Metadata through the Data Catalog

1. Navigate to the Data Catalog UI

2. Search for the Data Product that you need to edit the metadata of.

To edit the Data Product's description:

1. Click on the edit button on the Overview Column

2. Make the changes.

3. Click "Save changes"

To edit the Data Product's dictionary (column description, classification and sensitivity):

1. Click on the "Dictionary" Tab

2. Click on the edit button

3. Click on the pencil for the column you want to modify

4. Make the changes.

5. Click on the green check icon.

6. Click "Close" when you are done making changes to the columns.

Editing Metadata through the API

Foundation offers API endpoints to edit the metadata of a Data Product:

/api/data/data_product/metadata

/api/data/data_product/schema

Read the Using the Foundation APIs page to leverage this option in the best way possible.