About curation and enrichment
Curation and enrichment involve organizing and adding valuable context to information or resources to enhance their accessibility and usability.
Together, curation ensures everything is in its right place, and enrichment deepens the knowledge and usability of each piece of information, this is true for a data catalog as well.
Data catalogs in data.world transform chaotic data collections into structured, accessible resources. Once the technical team completes the source data collection setup, data stewards in data.world are responsible for finalizing metadata resources for end-users. With insights from data.world's catalog, data stewards make informed decisions on data access, usage, and governance—encompassing both curation and enrichment.
What is curation?
Purpose of Curation
The primary goal of curation in data.world is to maintain a clean, reliable, and accessible data catalog. This involves organizing, documenting, and maintaining data to ensure quality and compliance with governance standards.
How to Curate your catalog in data.world
Data Validation: Correct errors from collected metadata
Create user groups based on permissions and access for metadata resources
Data Organization: Create custom collections to organize metadata resources
Governance & Compliance: Ensure metadata completeness manually via search filters or automations
Encourage user engagement by utilizing resource ratings, discussion threads, or suggesting changes
Data Cleaning: Removing duplicates, correcting errors, and standardizing data formats
Outcome of Curation Efforts
High-Quality Data: Ensures accurate, reliable, and consistent data for trustworthy decision-making.
Efficient Access: Organized data improves navigation, search, and retrieval efficiency, promoting user adoption within data.world.
What is Enrichment?
Purpose of Enrichment
The purpose of the Enrichment process is to add value to the metadata. Enrichment involves adding meaningful context to the metadata. This helps in transforming the basic data into more valuable and actionable insights.
How to Enrich your catalog in data.world
Add summaries and descriptions to metadata resources
Fill in out-of-the-box metadata fields from the source collectors
Create & fill in custom metadata fields
Create Glossary terms & relate them to other objects
Utilize Archie to generate descriptions for resources
Create organization Browse Cards and instance level Browse Cards
Outcome of Enrichment Activities
Contextualization: Improved understanding of the data, its relevance, and its application.
Enhanced Discoverability: Enriched data is easier to find and interpret, leading to more effective utilization.