A data collection rating is the average of each data user's assessment of the data collection, it helps potential consumers to gauge the usefulness of a data collection. It also helps stakeholders to understand how useful their collection is to the Data Users. You can rate the data collections to which you have received access, and you can also rate the data collections that you manage.
To rate a data collection, verify one of the following prerequisites:
•You have received access to the data collection and your user profile is assigned at least one of the predefined roles for Data Marketplace. For more information about the predefined roles for Data Marketplace, see the Predefined roles topic in the Introduction and Getting Started help.
•You are either an inherited or specifically assigned stakeholder with one of the following stakeholder roles on the data collection:
- Data Owner
- Technical Owner
•You have received access to the data collection and your user profile is assigned a role for which the following privileges and permissions are enabled:
- Access Data Marketplace privilege is enabled in Administrator.
- Read permission is enabled in Metadata Command Center for data collections and usage contexts.
•You are assigned as a stakeholder on the data collection and your user profile is assigned a role for which the following privileges and permissions are enabled:
- Access Data Marketplace privilege is enabled in Administrator.
- Read permission is enabled in Metadata Command Center for data collections.
The following image shows the rating tooltip of a data collection:
To rate a data collection, click the Rating () panel. When you rate a collection, you can also enter your comments to express your experience with the data collection. To access the advanced text formatting options or to add emoticons, click the Format Text () button. In the Rating panel, you can also view how other consumers of the data collection have rated it and the comments that they provided when they rated the collection.
The following image shows the Rating panel on a data collection:
As a Data User, you can rate a data collection that you have access to for the specific usage that you ordered it for or in a general sense. You can also rate a collection as a Data Owner in a general sense. To rate a collection in a generic sense, select the Not Specified option from the list at the top of the Rating panel.
In the Rating panel, you can view the avatars of the other Data Users that have rated the data collection. You can also see how they have rated it.