You can associate terms that are in the glossary with technical assets to provide user-friendly business names to technical assets. The Glossary Association capability for a catalog source automatically associates glossary terms with technical assets, or recommends glossary terms that you can manually associate with technical assets in Data Governance and Catalog.
This capability associates glossary terms only with data elements, such as columns, and technical data sets, such as tables. When you configure a catalog source, select the Glossary Association capability on the Configuration wizard to get intelligent recommendations for the extracted technical assets in Data Governance and Catalog. After running the Glossary Association capability in Metadata Command Center, you can curate the glossary recommendations in Data Governance and Catalog. For more information about curating glossaries for technical assets, see the Working With Assets help module in Data Governance and Catalog.
Note: Source systems such as SAP BW, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP ERP, and Salesforce can contain ambiguous data with technical field names. For such source systems, CLAIRE generates glossary associations from the source context. For SAP BW, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP ERP catalog sources, CLAIRE uses the extracted Business Name attribute. For Salesforce catalog sources, CLAIRE uses the extracted Label attribute.
You can also manually associate glossary metric and business term assets with data element and data entity classifications in Data Governance and Catalog. To view the associations, you must run the catalog source job with the Glossary Association capability enabled after you associate the glossary assets with the classifications.
The following image shows the glossary association tab on the Configuration wizard while configuring a catalog source:
