Glossary Content Management Overview
Data stewards and stakeholders are content managers who create and manage assets in the glossary for glossary consumers to view.
Content managers are responsible for the accuracy of content and structure of a glossary. The data steward collaborates with subject matter experts and stakeholders to create and manage business terms, categories, and policies. Stakeholders provide their inputs on the accuracy of the information in a Glossary asset, based on which data stewards approve or reject the asset.
As a data steward, understand the types of assets, and how you can relate the assets to one another. The relationship between assets forms the structure of a glossary and helps Glossary consumers gain an understanding of the meaning of a term. For example, you can link business terms through default relationships or custom relationships. You can create a policy to govern business terms. You can classify policies and business terms into categories.
Business terms, categories, and policies have the following common features:
- •Each Glossary asset goes through an approval cycle before glossary consumers can view the assets. The Glossary administrator configures all the assets in a glossary to be published after either a simple approval or an approval workflow process.
- •Each Glossary asset can have a data steward, owner, and stakeholder assigned to the asset.
- •To update a published or rejected Glossary asset, the data steward must create a revision of the asset. The revised asset goes through an approval cycle before consumers can view the revision.
- •The Analyst tool maintains an audit trail of actions that content managers perform on assets. Glossary consumers open an asset from the Library workspace to view the history of actions.
- •Content managers can add comments to assets.
Data stewards can create a business initiative to manage bulk changes to multiple Glossary assets. Stakeholders can approve the business initiative to approve multiple Glossary assets. Data stewards can publish the business initiative to publish all the assets that are part of the initiative.