Technical assets are representations of data elements, technical data sets, data containers that Metadata Command Center extracts from a source system.
The technical assets that you see in Data Governance and Catalog depend on the configurations that your organization administrator applies in Metadata Command Center. These configurations include the metadata extraction settings for the catalog sources, the capabilities that are enabled, the profiling filters that are applied, the job schedules that are defined, and other factors. For more information about catalog source configurations, see Administration in the Metadata Command Center help.
Technical assets in Data Governance and Catalog can be broadly categorized in the following manner:
•Data elements are the smallest unit of data in a source system. Columns, files, fields are examples of data elements.
•Technical data sets are a collection of data elements. For example, a table is a technical data set as it is a collection of columns.
•Data containers hold the data for an application. Examples of data containers are schema and database.
•Catalog sources are objects that represent the source system from which you extract metadata. You can create catalog sources in Metadata Command Center to extract metadata from source systems like Amazon S3 and Oracle.