Create a term in a glossary in Amazon DataZone - Amazon DataZone

Create a term in a glossary in Amazon DataZone

In Amazon DataZone, a business glossary is a collection of business terms that may be associated with assets (data). For more information, see Amazon DataZone terminology and concepts. To create, edit, or delete terms in a glossary in your Amazon DataZone domain, you must be the member of the owning project with the right permissions for that domain.

In Amazon DataZone, business glossary terms can have close descriptions. To set the context of a particular term, you can specify relationships among terms. When you define a relationship for a term, it is automatically added to the definition of the related term. The glossary term relationships available in Amazon DataZone include the following:

  • Is a Type of - indicates that the current term is a type of the identified term. Indicates that the identified term is a parent to the current term.

  • Has Types - indicates that the current term is a generic term for the indicated specific term or terms. This relationship can denote child terms for the generic term.

To create a new term, 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 the glossary where you want to create the new term.

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

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

  6. To add Readme, navigate to the term details page, and then you can choose Create readme to add some additional information about this glossary.

  7. To add relationships, navigate to the term details page, choose Term Relationships section, and then choose Add Glossary Terms. In the dialog, choose the relationship and the terms you want to relate, and then choose Close to add a term to the appropriate relationship type. This relationship is also added to all the terms you made related.