Data catalog
Ideally, if you have chosen Microsoft Purview as your data catalog tool, then the search portal of Microsoft Purview should be your data catalog, in which case you should simply point to the Microsoft Purview Catalog Search landing page from the portal.
However, sometimes companies want to abstract the data catalog to a higher level. This is primarily done for two reasons:
- Microsoft Purview Catalog Search is very advanced and some users might want a simpler search tool
- Microsoft Purview may not be the only catalog tool being used
To build a catalog of your own that consolidates other catalogs, you need to do the following:
- Extract metadata from all your other third-party catalogs
- Design a metadata schema that encapsulates information from other catalogs
- Select the right storage for your custom metadata
- Select the right search technology to index and search the metadata
- Design a UI that meets the requirements of the data mesh...
