Combing the web is simple, but how do you search for data at work? It's difficult and time-consuming, and can sometimes seem impossible. This book introduces a practical solution: the data catalog. Data analysts, data scientists, and data engineers will learn how to create true data discovery in their organizations, making the catalog a key enabler for data-driven innovation and data governance. Author Ole Olesen-Bagneux explains the benefits of implementing a data catalog. You'll learn how to organize data for your catalog, search for what you need, and manage data within the catalog. Written from a data management perspective and from a library and information science perspective, this book helps you: Learn what a data catalog is and how it can help your organization Organize data and its sources into domains and describe them with metadata Search data using very simple-to-complex search techniques and learn to browse in domains, data lineage, and graphs Manage the data in your company via a data catalog Implement a data catalog in a way that exactly matches the strategic priorities of your organization Understand what the future has in store for data catalogs

Ole Olesen-Bagneux holds a PhD in Information Science from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, where he has also lectured in courses pivotal for data cataloging, such as Knowledge Organization and Information Retrieval that teaches you how to organize data in big collections and retrieve it again. He has worked within the field of Data Management and Governance as a leader, architect, and practitioner for over a decade from the life science sector. He has hands-on experience with several data catalogs, and currently works as an Enterprise Architect in GN Store Nord, in Copenhagen, Denmark.