Create a business glossary - Amazon DataZone

Create a business glossary

In Amazon DataZone, a business glossary is a collection of business terms (words) that may be associated with assets (data). It provides appropriate vocabularies with a list of business terms and their definitions for business users to ensure the same definitions are used across the organization when analyzing data. Business glossaries are created in the catalog domain and can be applied to assets and columns to help understand key characteristics of that asset or column. One or more glossary terms can be applied. A business glossary can be a flat list of terms where any term in the business glossary can be associated with a sublist of other terms. For more information, see Amazon DataZone terminology and concepts. To create, edit, or delete a glossary in your Amazon DataZone domain, you must be the member of the owning project with the right permissions for that domain.

To create a glossary, complete the following steps:

  1. Navigate to the Amazon DataZone data portal using the data portal URL and log in using your SSO or AWS credentials. If you’re an Amazon DataZone administrator, you can obtain the data portal URL by accessing the Amazon DataZone console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/datazone in the AWS account where the Amazon DataZone domain was created.

  2. Navigate to the Catalog menu in the top navigation bar next to Search.

  3. In the Amazon DataZone Data Portal, choose Glossaries, and then choose Create glossary.

  4. Specify a name, description, owner for the glossary and then choose Create glossary.

  5. Enable the new glossary by choosing the Enabled toggle.

  6. On the glossary's details page, you can choose Create readme to add some additional information about this glossary.

To disable or enable a business glossary, complete the following steps:

  1. Navigate to the Amazon DataZone data portal using the data portal URL and log in using your SSO or AWS credentials. If you’re an Amazon DataZone administrator, you can obtain the data portal URL by accessing the Amazon DataZone console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/datazone in the AWS account where the Amazon DataZone domain was created.

  2. Navigate to the Catalog menu in the top navigation bar next to Search.

  3. In the Amazon DataZone Data Portal, choose Glossaries, and locate the business glossary that you want to disable/enable.

  4. On the glossary details page, locate the Enable/Disable toggle and use it to enable or disable your selected glossary.

    Note

    Disabling a glossary also disables all the terms that it contains.