Define assets for the catalog

Define terms
Before you create terms, you must define their meaning and use for the corporation to ensure clarity and compatibility among departments, projects, or products.

Define information governance policies and information governance rules
You define information governance policies and rules for the entire organization to ensure clarity and compatibility among departments, projects, or products.

Define external asset types or extended data sources
External assets are entities that are outside of the IBM InfoSphere Information Server metadata repository. You can assign external assets to terms and information governance rules. Extended data sources are modeled objects in the metadata repository that represent different data sources.

Define custom attributes and labels
You can define custom attributes and labels to give added business meaning to your assets.