Data governance and metadata

Data governance in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio encompasses the management of business glossaries, metadata forms, and asset classification to ensure consistent data understanding across your organization. Both business glossaries and metadata forms work together to provide comprehensive business context for your data assets, making it easier for users across your organization to discover, understand, and effectively use data in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio.

A business glossary is a centralized collection of business terms and their definitions that ensures consistent vocabulary usage when analyzing data, while metadata forms are customizable forms that allow data owners to augment asset metadata with additional business context beyond the technical metadata automatically collected by the service.

Glossaries and metadata forms are owned by the project that creates them. Only members of the owning project can edit or delete a glossary, its terms, or a metadata form. However, glossaries, their terms, and metadata forms are visible to all users in the domain. Users in any project within the domain can search for and view glossaries and terms, and can attach glossary terms and metadata forms to their assets to curate metadata. This allows a governance team to create and manage glossary terms and metadata forms in a dedicated project while users across the domain use them to describe and categorize their data assets.