How To Approach a Documentation Initiative

High-quality documentation is the foundation of effective data discovery. By enriching your assets with clear, consistent, and searchable metadata, teams ensure that data can be easily understood, trusted, and reused. The better documented your assets are, the more autonomous your teams become.

However, launching a documentation initiative can be daunting as the scope can be intimidating. This section is for you.

• You're part of your company governance team and have to launch a documentation initiative but don't really know how to go about it in Catalog
• Or you've been appointed owner of several assets in Catalog and don't know where to start or how to document them

We recommend following these five initial steps to start documenting in Catalog.