# Amazon DataZone data catalog
You can use the Amazon DataZone business data catalog to catalog data across your organization with business context and thus enable everyone in your organization to find and understand data quickly.
In order to use Amazon DataZone to catalog your data, you must first bring your data (assets) as inventory of your project in Amazon DataZone. Creating inventory for a project, makes the assets discoverable only to that project’s members. Project inventory assets are not available to all domain users in search/browse unless explicitly published.
After creating a project inventory, data owners can curate their inventory assets with the required business metadata by adding or updating business names (asset and schema), descriptions (asset and schema), read me, glossary terms (asset and schema), and metadata forms.
The next step of using Amazon DataZone to catalog your data, is to make your project’s inventory assets discoverable by the domain users. You can do this by publishing the inventory assets to the Amazon DataZone catalog. Only the latest version of the inventory asset can be published to the catalog and only the latest published version is active in the discovery catalog. If an inventory asset is updated after it's been published into the Amazon DataZone catalog, you must explicitly publish it again in order for the latest version to be in the discovery catalog.
For more information, see [Amazon DataZone terminology and concepts](datazone-concepts.md).
**Topics**
+ [Create a business glossary in Amazon DataZone](create-maintain-business-glossary.md)
+ [Edit a business glossary in Amazon DataZone](edit-business-glossary.md)
+ [Delete a business glossary in Amazon DataZone](delete-business-glossary.md)
+ [Create a term in a glossary in Amazon DataZone](create-maintain-term.md)
+ [Edit a term in a glossary in Amazon DataZone](edit-term.md)
+ [Delete a term in a glossary in Amazon DataZone](delete-term.md)
+ [Create a metadata form in Amazon DataZone](create-metadata-form.md)
+ [Edit a metadata form in Amazon DataZone](edit-metadata-form.md)
+ [Delete a metadata form in Amazon DataZone](delete-metadata-form.md)
+ [Create a field in a metadata form in Amazon DataZone](create-field-in-metadata-form.md)
+ [Edit a field in a metadata form in Amazon DataZone](edit-field-in-metadata-form.md)
+ [Delete a field in a metadata form in Amazon DataZone](delete-field-in-metadata-form.md)
# Create a business glossary in Amazon DataZone
In Amazon DataZone, a business glossary is a collection of business terms (words) that may be associated with assets (data). It provides appropriate vocabularies with a list of business terms and their definitions for business users to ensure the same definitions are used across the organization when analyzing data. Business glossaries are created in the catalog domain and can be applied to assets and columns to help understand key characteristics of that asset or column. One or more glossary terms can be applied. A business glossary can be a flat list of terms where any term in the business glossary can be associated with a sublist of other terms. For more information, see [Amazon DataZone terminology and concepts](datazone-concepts.md). To create, edit, or delete a glossary in your Amazon DataZone domain, you must be the member of the owning project with the right permissions for that domain.
To create a glossary, complete the following steps:
1. Navigate to the Amazon DataZone data portal using the data portal URL and log in using your SSO or AWS credentials. If you’re an Amazon DataZone administrator, you can obtain the data portal URL by accessing the Amazon DataZone console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/datazone in the AWS account where the Amazon DataZone domain was created.
1. Navigate to the **Catalog** menu in the top navigation bar next to **Search**.
1. In the Amazon DataZone Data Portal, choose **Glossaries**, and then choose **Create glossary**.
1. Specify a name, description, owner for the glossary and then choose **Create glossary**.
1. Enable the new glossary by choosing the **Enabled** toggle.
1. On the glossary's details page, you can choose **Create readme** to add some additional information about this glossary.
To disable or enable a business glossary, complete the following steps:
1. Navigate to the Amazon DataZone data portal using the data portal URL and log in using your SSO or AWS credentials. If you’re an Amazon DataZone administrator, you can obtain the data portal URL by accessing the Amazon DataZone console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/datazone in the AWS account where the Amazon DataZone domain was created.
1. Navigate to the **Catalog** menu in the top navigation bar next to **Search**.
1. In the Amazon DataZone Data Portal, choose **Glossaries**, and locate the business glossary that you want to disable/enable.
1. On the glossary details page, locate the **Enable/Disable** toggle and use it to enable or disable your selected glossary.
**Note**
Disabling a glossary also disables all the terms that it contains.
# Edit a business glossary in Amazon DataZone
In Amazon DataZone, a business glossary is a collection of business terms (words) that may be associated with assets (data). It provides appropriate vocabularies with a list of business terms and their definitions for business users to ensure the same definitions are used across the organization when analyzing data. Business glossaries are created in the catalog domain and can be applied to assets and columns to help understand key characteristics of that asset or column. One or more glossary terms can be applied. A business glossary can be a flat list of terms where any term in the business glossary can be associated with a sublist of other terms. For more information, see [Amazon DataZone terminology and concepts](datazone-concepts.md). To edit a glossary in your Amazon DataZone domain, you must be the member of the owning project with the right permissions for that domain.
To edit a business glossary, complete the following steps:
1. Navigate to the Amazon DataZone data portal using the data portal URL and log in using your SSO or AWS credentials. If you’re an Amazon DataZone administrator, you can obtain the data portal URL by accessing the Amazon DataZone console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/datazone in the AWS account where the Amazon DataZone domain was created.
1. Navigate to the **Catalog** menu in the top navigation bar next to **Search**.
1. In the Amazon DataZone Data Portal, choose **Glossaries**, and locate the business glossary that you want to edit.
1. On the glossary details page, expand **Actions** and then choose **Edit** to edit the glossary.
1. Make your updates to the name, description, and then choose **Save**.
# Delete a business glossary in Amazon DataZone
In Amazon DataZone, a business glossary is a collection of business terms (words) that may be associated with assets (data). It provides appropriate vocabularies with a list of business terms and their definitions for business users to ensure the same definitions are used across the organization when analyzing data. Business glossaries are created in the catalog domain and can be applied to assets and columns to help understand key characteristics of that asset or column. One or more glossary terms can be applied. A business glossary can be a flat list of terms where any term in the business glossary can be associated with a sublist of other terms. For more information, see [Amazon DataZone terminology and concepts](datazone-concepts.md). To delete a glossary in your Amazon DataZone domain, you must be the member of the owning project with the right permissions for that domain.
To delete a business glossary, complete the following steps:
1. Navigate to the Amazon DataZone data portal using the data portal URL and log in using your SSO or AWS credentials. If you’re an Amazon DataZone administrator, you can obtain the data portal URL by accessing the Amazon DataZone console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/datazone in the AWS account where the Amazon DataZone domain was created.
1. Navigate to the **Catalog** menu in the top navigation bar next to **Search**.
1. In the Amazon DataZone Data Portal, choose **Glossaries**, and locate the business glossary that you want to delete.
1. On the glossary details page, expand **Actions** and then choose **Delete** to delete the glossary.
**Note**
You must delete all existing terms in the glossary before you can delete the glossary.
1. Confirm the deletion of the glossary by choosing **Delete**.
# Create a term in a glossary in Amazon DataZone
In Amazon DataZone, a business glossary is a collection of business terms that may be associated with assets (data). For more information, see [Amazon DataZone terminology and concepts](datazone-concepts.md). To create, edit, or delete terms in a glossary in your Amazon DataZone domain, you must be the member of the owning project with the right permissions for that domain.
In Amazon DataZone, business glossary terms can have close descriptions. To set the context of a particular term, you can specify relationships among terms. When you define a relationship for a term, it is automatically added to the definition of the related term. The glossary term relationships available in Amazon DataZone include the following:
+ **Is a Type of** - indicates that the current term is a type of the identified term. Indicates that the identified term is a parent to the current term.
+ **Has Types** - indicates that the current term is a generic term for the indicated specific term or terms. This relationship can denote child terms for the generic term.
To create a new term, complete the following steps:
1. Navigate to the Amazon DataZone data portal using the data portal URL and log in using your SSO or AWS credentials. If you’re an Amazon DataZone administrator, you can obtain the data portal URL by accessing the Amazon DataZone console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/datazone in the AWS account where the Amazon DataZone domain was created.
1. Navigate to the **Catalog** menu in the top navigation bar next to **Search**.
1. In the Amazon DataZone Data Portal, choose **Glossaries**, and then choose the glossary where you want to create the new term.
1. Specify a name, description, owner for the term and then choose **Create term**.
1. Enable the new term by choosing the **Enabled** toggle.
1. To add **Readme**, navigate to the term details page, and then you can choose **Create readme** to add some additional information about this glossary.
1. To add relationships, navigate to the term details page, choose **Term Relationships** section, and then choose **Add Glossary Terms**. In the dialog, choose the relationship and the terms you want to relate, and then choose **Close** to add a term to the appropriate relationship type. This relationship is also added to all the terms you made related.
# Edit a term in a glossary in Amazon DataZone
In Amazon DataZone, a business glossary is a collection of business terms that may be associated with assets (data). For more information, see [Amazon DataZone terminology and concepts](datazone-concepts.md). To create, edit, or delete terms in a glossary in your Amazon DataZone domain, you must be the member of the owning project with the right permissions for that domain.
In Amazon DataZone, business glossary terms can have close descriptions. To set the context of a particular term, you can specify relationships among terms. When you define a relationship for a term, it is automatically added to the definition of the related term. The glossary term relationships available in Amazon DataZone include the following:
+ **Is a Type of** - indicates that the current term is a type of the identified term. Indicates that the identified term is a parent to the current term.
+ **Has Types** - indicates that the current term is a generic term for the indicated specific term or terms. This relationship can denote child terms for the generic term.
To edit a term in a glossary, complete the following steps:
1. Navigate to the Amazon DataZone data portal using the data portal URL and log in using your SSO or AWS credentials. If you’re an Amazon DataZone administrator, you can obtain the data portal URL by accessing the Amazon DataZone console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/datazone in the AWS account where the Amazon DataZone domain was created.
1. Navigate to the **Catalog** menu in the top navigation bar next to **Search**.
1. In the Amazon DataZone Data Portal, choose **Glossaries**, locate the glossary that contains the term that you you want to edit, and then choose that term.
1. On the term details page, expand **Actions** and then choose **Edit** to edit the term.
1. Make your updates to the name, description , and then choose **Save**.
# Delete a term in a glossary in Amazon DataZone
In Amazon DataZone, a business glossary is a collection of business terms that may be associated with assets (data). For more information, see [Amazon DataZone terminology and concepts](datazone-concepts.md). To create, edit, or delete terms in a glossary in your Amazon DataZone domain, you must be the member of the owning project with the right permissions for that domain.
In Amazon DataZone, business glossary terms can have close descriptions. To set the context of a particular term, you can specify relationships among terms. When you define a relationship for a term, it is automatically added to the definition of the related term. The glossary term relationships available in Amazon DataZone include the following:
+ **Is a Type of** - indicates that the current term is a type of the identified term. Indicates that the identified term is a parent to the current term.
+ **Has Types** - indicates that the current term is a generic term for the indicated specific term or terms. This relationship can denote child terms for the generic term.
To delete a term in a glossary, complete the following steps:
1. Navigate to the Amazon DataZone data portal using the data portal URL and log in using your SSO or AWS credentials. If you’re an Amazon DataZone administrator, you can obtain the data portal URL by accessing the Amazon DataZone console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/datazone in the AWS account where the Amazon DataZone domain was created.
1. Navigate to the **Catalog** menu in the top navigation bar next to **Search**.
1. In the Amazon DataZone Data Portal, choose **Glossaries**, locate the glossary that contains the term that you you want to delete, and then choose that term.
1. On the glossary details page, expand **Actions** and then choose **Delete** to delete the term.
1. Confirm the deletion of the term by choosing **Delete**.
# Create a metadata form in Amazon DataZone
In Amazon DataZone, metadata forms are simple forms to augment additional business context to the asset metadata in the catalog. It serves as an extensible mechanism for data owners to enrich the asset with information that can help data users when they search and find that data. Metadata forms can also serve a mechanism to enforce consistency to all assets being published to the Amazon DataZone catalog.
A metadata form definition is composed of one or more field definitions, with support for boolean, date, decimal, integer, string, and business glossary field value data types. For more information, see [Amazon DataZone terminology and concepts](datazone-concepts.md). To create, edit, or delete metadata forms in your Amazon DataZone domain, you must be a member of the owning project who has the right credentials.
To create a metadata form, complete the following steps:
1. Navigate to the Amazon DataZone data portal using the data portal URL and log in using your SSO or AWS credentials. If you’re an Amazon DataZone administrator, you can obtain the data portal URL by accessing the Amazon DataZone console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/datazone in the AWS account where the Amazon DataZone domain was created.
1. Navigate to the **Catalog** menu in the top navigation bar next to **Search**.
1. In the Amazon DataZone Data Portal, choose **Metadata forms** and then choose **Create form**.
1. Specify the metadata form name, description, owner and then choose **Create form**.
# Edit a metadata form in Amazon DataZone
In Amazon DataZone, metadata forms are simple forms to augment additional business context to the asset metadata in the catalog. It serves as an extensible mechanism for data owners to enrich the asset with information that can help data users when they search and find that data. Metadata forms can also serve a mechanism to enforce consistency to all assets being published to the Amazon DataZone catalog.
A metadata form definition is composed of one or more field definitions, with support for boolean, date, decimal, integer, string, and business glossary field value data types. For more information, see [Amazon DataZone terminology and concepts](datazone-concepts.md). To create, edit, or delete metadata forms in your Amazon DataZone domain, you must be a member of the owning project who has the right credentials.
To edit a metadata form, complete the following steps:
1. Navigate to the Amazon DataZone data portal using the data portal URL and log in using your SSO or AWS credentials. If you’re an Amazon DataZone administrator, you can obtain the data portal URL by accessing the Amazon DataZone console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/datazone in the AWS account where the Amazon DataZone domain was created.
1. Navigate to the **Catalog** menu in the top navigation bar next to **Search**.
1. In the Amazon DataZone Data Portal, choose **Metadata forms**, and then locate the metadata form that you want to edit.
1. On the metadata form's details page, expand **Actions**, and then choose **Edit**.
1. Perform your updates to the name, description, owner fields, and then choose **Update form**.
# Delete a metadata form in Amazon DataZone
In Amazon DataZone, metadata forms are simple forms to augment additional business context to the asset metadata in the catalog. It serves as an extensible mechanism for data owners to enrich the asset with information that can help data users when they search and find that data. Metadata forms can also serve a mechanism to enforce consistency to all assets being published to the Amazon DataZone catalog.
A metadata form definition is composed of one or more field definitions, with support for boolean, date, decimal, integer, string, and business glossary field value data types. For more information, see [Amazon DataZone terminology and concepts](datazone-concepts.md). To create, edit, or delete metadata forms in your Amazon DataZone domain, you must be a member of the owning project who has the right credentials.
To delete a metadata form, complete the following steps:
**Note**
Before you can delete a metadata form, you must remove it from all asset types or assets to which it is applied.
1. Navigate to the Amazon DataZone data portal using the data portal URL and log in using your SSO or AWS credentials. If you’re an Amazon DataZone administrator, you can obtain the data portal URL by accessing the Amazon DataZone console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/datazone in the AWS account where the Amazon DataZone domain was created.
1. Navigate to the **Catalog** menu in the top navigation bar next to **Search**.
1. In the Amazon DataZone Data Portal, choose **Metadata forms**, and then locate the metadata form that you want to delete.
1. If the metadata form that you want to delete is enabled, disable the metadata form by choosing the **Enabled** toggle.
1. On the metadata form's details page, expand **Actions**, and then choose **Delete**.
1. Confirm deletion by choosing **Delete**.
# Create a field in a metadata form in Amazon DataZone
In Amazon DataZone, metadata forms are simple forms to augment additional business context to the asset metadata in the catalog. It serves as an extensible mechanism for data owners to enrich the asset with information that can help data users when they search and find that data. Metadata forms can also serve an mechanism to enforce consistency to all assets being published to the Amazon DataZone catalog.
A metadata form definition is composed of one or more field definitions, with support for boolean, date, decimal, integer, string, and business glossary field value data types. For more information, see [Amazon DataZone terminology and concepts](datazone-concepts.md). To create, edit, or delete fields in metadata forms in your Amazon DataZone domain, you must be a member of the owning project who has the right credentials.
To create a field in a metadata form, complete the following steps:
1. Navigate to the Amazon DataZone data portal using the data portal URL and log in using your SSO or AWS credentials. If you’re an Amazon DataZone administrator, you can obtain the data portal URL by accessing the Amazon DataZone console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/datazone in the AWS account where the Amazon DataZone domain was created.
1. Navigate to the **Catalog** menu in the top navigation bar next to **Search**.
1. In the Amazon DataZone Data Portal, choose **Metadata forms** and then choose the metadata form where you want to create field(s).
1. On the form's details page, choose **Create field**.
1. Specify the field name, description, type, and whether this is a required field, and then choose **Create field**.
# Edit a field in a metadata form in Amazon DataZone
In Amazon DataZone, metadata forms are simple forms to augment additional business context to the asset metadata in the catalog. It serves as an extensible mechanism for data owners to enrich the asset with information that can help data users when they search and find that data. Metadata forms can also serve an mechanism to enforce consistency to all assets being published to the Amazon DataZone catalog.
A metadata form definition is composed of one or more field definitions, with support for boolean, date, decimal, integer, string, and business glossary field value data types. For more information, see [Amazon DataZone terminology and concepts](datazone-concepts.md). To create, edit, or delete fields in metadata forms in your Amazon DataZone domain, you must be a member of the owning project who has the right credentials.
To edit a field in a metadata form, complete the following steps:
1. Navigate to the Amazon DataZone data portal using the data portal URL and log in using your SSO or AWS credentials. If you’re an Amazon DataZone administrator, you can obtain the data portal URL by accessing the Amazon DataZone console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/datazone in the AWS account where the Amazon DataZone domain was created.
1. Navigate to the **Catalog** menu in the top navigation bar next to **Search**.
1. In the Amazon DataZone Data Portal, choose **Metadata forms** and then choose the metadata form where you want to edit field(s).
1. On the form's details page, choose the field that you want to edit, then expand **Actions**, and choose **Edit**.
1. Make your updates to the field name, description, type, and whether this is a required field, and then choose **Update field**.
# Delete a field in a metadata form in Amazon DataZone
In Amazon DataZone, metadata forms are simple forms to augment additional business context to the asset metadata in the catalog. It serves as an extensible mechanism for data owners to enrich the asset with information that can help data users when they search and find that data. Metadata forms can also serve an mechanism to enforce consistency to all assets being published to the Amazon DataZone catalog.
A metadata form definition is composed of one or more field definitions, with support for boolean, date, decimal, integer, string, and business glossary field value data types. For more information, see [Amazon DataZone terminology and concepts](datazone-concepts.md). To create, edit, or delete fields in metadata forms in your Amazon DataZone domain, you must be a member of the owning project who has the right credentials.
To delete a field in a metadata form, complete the following steps:
1. Navigate to the Amazon DataZone data portal using the data portal URL and log in using your SSO or AWS credentials. If you’re an Amazon DataZone administrator, you can obtain the data portal URL by accessing the Amazon DataZone console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/datazone in the AWS account where the Amazon DataZone domain was created.
1. Navigate to the **Catalog** menu in the top navigation bar next to **Search**.
1. In the Amazon DataZone Data Portal, choose **Metadata forms** and then choose the metadata form where you want to delete field(s).
1. On the form's details page, choose the field that you want to delete, then expand **Actions**, and choose **Delete**.
1. Confirm deletion by choosing **Delete**.