Creating a catalog (Watson Knowledge Catalog)

You create a catalog to organize your assets and collaborators.

Requirements

Required permissions You must have this user permissions to create a catalog: - Manage catalogs

The default catalog is created during installation. It continuously synchronizes assets with the Information assets view and is the target catalog for assets that are imported, curated, and analyzed with the advanced data curation and data quality tools. See Setting up your default catalog.

It might take some time until all synchronized information assets are shown in the catalog. You can use pod logs to monitor the synchronization progress. See At-a-glance platform monitoring.

The default catalog is automatically governed, so that data protection rules are enforced. Data protection rules can deny access to data assets or mask sensitive data in columns. For subsequent catalogs, you can choose whether the catalog is governed or ungoverned. You can't change the governance setting after you create the catalog.

The file storage that you associate with the catalog will contain files for assets that are copied into the catalog. For example, if you add local files or a notebook to the catalog, the information about those files are stored as assets in the catalog and the associated files are stored in the file storage.

Duplicate asset handling When assets are added to a catalog, it can happen that an asset with a duplicate already exists in the catalog. You can specify what action should be taken in such a case. The choices you have are determined by the catalog default setting. Find out how you can specify duplicate asset handling in Handling duplicate assets in catalogs.

Creating a catalog

To create a catalog:

  1. Click Catalogs > All catalogs to get to the Your Catalogs page, and then click New Catalog.
  2. Specify these properties:
    • A name and optional description for the catalog.
    • Whether to enable governance for the catalog. If you enable it, you can't disable it.
    • Duplicate asset handling. By default, duplicate handling is set to allow duplicates.
  3. Click Create. Your new catalog opens. You can start adding assets and collaborators to it.

You have the Admin role within the catalog.

If you want other users to add collaborators to the catalog, add those users as catalog collaborators with the Admin role.

Next steps

Parent topic: Administering a catalog