Glossary

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17 terms. Also available as SKOS for import into any glossary tool.

• Active metadata draft
  Metadata that triggers action as it changes, through events, rules and agents, instead of waiting to be looked up.
• Business element (data element, business data element) draft
  A governed piece of business data that carries a term's meaning in a specific context, linked to physical columns.
• Business glossary (glossary) draft
  The organization's agreed vocabulary: business terms, their definitions, synonyms and relationships.
• Business metadata draft
  What data means to the business: definitions, owners, rules, and how important it is.
• Business term draft
  A word or phrase the business uses, with one agreed definition. It describes meaning, not data.
• Change data capture (CDC) (CDC) draft
  Capturing inserts, updates and deletes from a database as a stream of change events, usually by reading its transaction log.
• Critical data element (CDE) (CDE) draft
  A data element important enough to the business to require extra governance: an owner, quality rules, documented lineage and monitoring.
• Data catalog (metadata catalog) draft
  A searchable inventory of data assets across systems, pointing to their metadata, owners and lineage.
• Data contract draft
  An explicit, versioned agreement between a data producer and its consumers about schema, meaning, quality and freshness.
• Data dictionary (source data dictionary) draft
  A column-by-column reference for one system: each field's type, allowed values and local definition.
• Data lineage (lineage) draft
  The record of where data comes from, how it is transformed, and where it goes.
• Data profiling (profiling) draft
  Measuring what data actually looks like: counts, ranges, nulls, distinct values and patterns.
• Data quality (DQ) draft
  Rules data must satisfy, and the measured results of checking it against them.
• Master data (golden record) draft
  The single trusted version of a core business entity such as a customer, product or account.
• Reference data draft
  Shared lists of allowed codes and values used across systems.
• Semantic layer (metrics layer) draft
  A shared definition of business metrics and dimensions, so every tool and AI agent calculates them the same way.
• Technical metadata (physical metadata) draft
  Facts about how data is physically stored and moved: names, types, locations, schemas and jobs.