Using Hierarchical Tags

Tagging assets helps you understand your data and its relationships to other assets. The Tag Hierarchies page is where users with the appropriate privileges can view and manage tags.

Custom Tags

You can create and manage tags that your organization needs to consistently classify assets in the catalog into clear categories. Tagging assets helps you identify all sources with similar content.

A tag hierarchy is a multilevel grouping of tags. You assign tags to assets so you can search for all assets with that tag. Finding assets that share the same tags helps you govern data and make informed decisions about your assets.

Tag Hierarchies page showing a list of custom tag hierarchies, a tags panel, and an edit tag dialog.
Key Page Features

Feature

Description

(1) Search

Allows free-text search in the tag hierarchies.

(2) Results

Shows a list of tag hierarchies with their descriptions and details. If you enter a search term, only the hierarchies that match the criteria are shown.

(3) Edit

Opens dialog where you edit the name and description of the tag hierarchy.

(4) Create Tag

Opens a dialog where you create a tag or a child tag under an existing higher-level tag.

(5) Edit Tag

Lets you to change the name, description, or color of the tag. You'll also see when the tag was created or changed and by which user.

System-Defined Tags

The catalog provides system-defined tag hierarchies that are automatically applied to data products during metadata extraction. These tag hierarchies are available as read-only.

Data Protection and Privacy

The data protection and privacy tag hierarchy contains tags that help you quickly identify data products requiring strict access control.

  • Personal Data is applied to data products that contain people's personal data. Personal data is information that can be used to identify an individual, either on its own or in combination with other data, directly or indirectly. For example, height, weight, eye and hair color.

  • Sensitive Personal Data is applied to data products that contain people's sensitive data. Sensitive personal data contains any of the various categories of high-risk data as defined under different international data protection and privacy laws, including:

    • Data concerning vulnerable persons, such as children or differently abled individuals

    • Data to evaluate and predict a person’s behavior

    • Passwords and answers security questions

    • Employment, professional, and education details, such as salary, trade union membership, or degrees or certifications obtained

    • Data revealing someone’s personal details, such as political opinions, religious beliefs, marital status, or criminal convictions and offenses

    • Health data (for example, the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA))

    • Financial information, such as bank account and credit card data

    Processing personal data must be strictly controlled to ensure it is handled lawfully, fairly, and transparently in accordance with the laws and regulations in your country or region (for example, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)).

Tag Hierarchies page showing the data protection and privacy tag hierarchy.

During metadata extraction, the catalog applies these tags to data products that contain personal data, sensitive personal data, or both. You can't manually create tag relationships to assets with data protection and privacy tags. Also, these tags aren't available in the filter panel.