Foundations
Find and trust data
For everyone who needs to find, understand and use trusted data. No prior experience with Collate assumed.
What you will be able to do
- Search across every asset type and narrow a broad result set with tags and filters
- Find trusted data assets and understand why they are trusted
- Interpret ownership, glossary terms, classifications and lineage
- Navigate from a business glossary term to the physical assets behind it
- Trace a data asset back to its source through lineage
- Assess whether a given dataset is fit for your purpose
- Request a description change when you do not have the rights to make it
How this track works
- Work through the six Foundations modules
- Pass the knowledge check, which you can retake as often as you like
Modules
Getting Started with Collate
How metadata gets into Collate, and what the platform does with it once it arrives.
10 minData Discovery Basics
Finding the asset you need among tens of thousands, and narrowing a broad search down to a usable shortlist.
10 minUnderstanding Related Elements
Reading an asset in context: its tags, its glossary terms, its owners, and everything else connected to it.
5 minLineage Basics
How to trace a number back to where it came from, at both table and column level.
10 minData Quality Basics
How quality is tested and expressed, so you can judge whether an asset is fit for your purpose.
10 minData Description Basics
How descriptions are written, requested, discussed and versioned, including what to do when you lack the rights to edit.
10 minFoundations knowledge check
10 questions, 8 to pass, unlimited retakes. Every answer is explained.