The catalog's metadata management capabilities make underlying data discoverable, organized, managed, open to enrichment and consumable by people and automated processes; metadata is sourced and linked to other assets; assets are correlated to reveal commonality and reduce duplication; metadata is exposed to promote reuse; and mandatory metadata, including semantic meaning of data elements that supports regulatory compliance, is defined quickly. Metadata is harvested automatically wherever possible, with governed manual creation and enrichment where discovery falls short, and captured through every lifecycle stage: quality metrics and SLAs, classification, provenance, lifecycle and usage metadata. The catalog keeps metadata versions, logs user actions and keeps history for point-in-time inquiry; KPIs, metrics and SLAs on cataloging are produced and shared.
The graph holds this control, the 0 it maps to, and the evidence behind each claim, over MCP and REST.