We are thrilled to announce new functionality for the Quick Edit feature to support all of the bulk operations necessary to keep catalogs fresh and accurate. 

Previously for Quick Edit, users could only filter a set of resources by Resource Type. But now users can leverage search facets, advanced filtering, and text search capabilities available in other parts of the data.world platform. Users can also perform multiple searches and apply multiple filters to continually add resources to the selection without restarting each time. This will streamline bulk operations by allowing users to more seamlessly select the exact set of resources intended for bulk enrichment and editing.

These capabilities are now available wherever Quick Edit lives: Glossary, Resources, and Collections. They will appear once you select either "Quick Edit" for Glossary, or the "Edit Multiple Resources" entry point for Resources and Collections, shown below:

In a future release, we will enable these capabilities for the Bulk Upload/Edit feature as well, making offline editing more targeted and effective.

For more information, please refer to the documentation for Glossary Quick Edit, Resources Quick Edit, and Collections Quick Edit.

We're excited to introduce some powerful improvements and enhancements. Here's a list of our latest releases to the enterprise data catalog

1) Archie Bots - description generator enhancement

Archie Bots can now effortlessly describe all types of catalog resources, including custom resources. This improvement saves you time enriching your catalog, improving discoverability and understandability. You can read more about Archie Bots here.

2) Improvements to UX and increased max character count of descriptions

Enjoy getting wordy! We've increased the maximum character count of the Description field to 5000, allowing for more comprehensive and detailed information. We've also included markdown support in the hover-over view of descriptions and increased the view window size in search results.

3) Improvements to the search and navigation of Glossary terms

Users can now quickly filter by the first letter, making it easier to locate and manage terms. We've also made improvements to how special characters are sorted in the glossary, ensuring a more intuitive and organized experience. 

4) Now you can query the catalog layers

Customers can now query the layers of the graph using a named graph called :current. This feature federates your source data and catalog enrichments into one queryable graph, simplifying data exploration across catalog layers and allowing for easier exploration and analysis of your data assets. You can read more about the catalog layers and how to query them here.

We hope these enhancements empower you to make the most of your enterprise data catalog. Stay tuned for more exciting updates in the future!

To make collector setup faster and easier for catalog administrators, the Metadata Collectors page and Command Builder Wizard now support saving, editing, and deleting collector configurations for on-premise collectors.

Some of the new functionality in this release are:

• Collectors configured from the UI will be saved and viewable, even before collectors are run. Previously, collector configurations were not saved for later use. 
• Collector configurations can be edited and deleted.
• Users can give collector configurations custom names.
• New table “Catalog metadata sources” shows all collectors that are bringing metadata into the catalog.

For more information, refer to the documentation here.

Visit your notifications settings page to customize the transactional emails you receive from data.world.

You can choose to:

• Turn off all non-essential email communications
• Unsubscribe from a category of email notifications
• Customize which digests you receive
• Customize dataset and project activity notifications

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We are thrilled to announce the General Availability of the Metadata Collectors page and CLI Command Builder tool! In addition, we've introduced the ability for users to create, manage, and delete Service Account tokens. These 3 features empower catalog administrators to more quickly set up on-premises collectors so your catalog users can get started discovering and understanding your data faster. In addition, seeing all the collectors (on-premises or cloud) that are bringing metadata into their catalogs allows you to maintain and govern your catalog more effectively.

For more information on these features, continue reading below.

Metadata Collectors Page: found in the Settings tab of an Organization, this page shows all of the collectors that are currently appearing in your catalog and other important information, such as the last time the collector ran. This page also includes cloud collectors set up via Connection Manager. For more information, refer to the documentation.

The CLI Command Builder allows users to step through a wizard to set up on-premises collectors. The wizard generates either a CLI command or a YAML file, so users can more quickly set up collectors during implementation. Since the BETA release, we've streamlined the form fields to more clearly differentiate required fields from optional fields For more information, refer to the documentation (available sources are denoted as "collector wizard available").

Service Accounts: administrators can now create, refresh (edit the expiration date), and delete service accounts from the UI. From the wizard, there is a "Create a service account" link that will take you to the "Service accounts" tab in the Settings page, and clicking on the "Add service account" button will generate an API token. We recommend using service accounts when setting up a collector, so the configurations aren't tied to user accounts. For more information, refer to the documentation.

We’re excited to announce new enhancements to data.world’s Databricks Collector and a brand new Collector for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2! With the help of these additional metadata harvesting and lineage capabilities, you can now get more detailed insights into your data than ever before.

Our Databricks Collector allows you to quickly and easily collect metadata from your Databricks environment into data.world. Now, with the addition of Jobs harvesting and lineage capabilities, you can get a deeper understanding of where your data is coming from, how it’s being used, and what insights you can discover.

Our new Jobs harvesting feature allows you to collect additional information about your workflows, such as creator, description, success, schedule, and more. This lets you better understand how and why your data was transformed.

The new lineage capabilities let you track your data’s journey, from its source all the way through its transformations. This means you can easily trace your data’s history, identify potential bottlenecks or sources of errors, and quickly gain an understanding of how your data has changed over time.

Our Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2 Collector allows you to bring insights about your data storage layer into data.world. With this Collector, you can efficiently harvest metadata about Blobs and Containers, including the owner, last modified, path, and more. This information is vital for understanding your underlying data, leading to more trust and confidence in your data-driven decision-making.

You can learn more about these Features in our Databricks documentation and our Azure Data Lake Storage documentation. Both these Collectors are Tier 2 for Enterprise Customers.

An example of ADLS Blob metadata in the data.world platform

For customers with the data.world Standard Tier or above, two new tables are available in the standard events and logging package `baseplatformdata` dataset.  data.world has always provided metrics and the raw events that drive them as query dataset within the platform allowing our customers to build their own custom success measures, KPIs and dashboards for catalog adoption and metadata programs.  This capability now extends to metadata governance programs as well with special audit event log tables specifically designed to track changes to metadata.

Audit events allow administrators to monitor the actions performed by all the users in the data.world application through the UI or while using API. The audit log reporting functionality enhances the accountability of actions in the application. Administrators can track the actions taken by users in the application and find the root cause of issues by identifying the resources on which the action was performed and who performed the action.

Please see the Audit Events documentation for more details including full table descriptions and sample queries.

Last month, we introduced the new CLI Command Builder tool, which allows users to set through a wizard to generate a CLI command or YAML file to run a collector. Today, we're thrilled to announce that the CLI Command Builder supports all on-premises collectors.

We are happy to announce the release of our latest feature: Advanced Search within the global search bar. 

But wait, there's more!

For customers who have hierarchical collections, you'll want to check out our beta release of the collection picker in the Advanced Search modal. This gives users the ability to quickly scope their search to a branch of collections in the domain hierarchy. Be sure to turn on the beta feature flag in the advanced settings to see this feature.
 

Organization admins will love our new Groups access summary feature that gives them a full view of the various access a Group might have - organization-wide or direct access to collections and data workspaces (datasets and projects).

To find this new view, go to your Organization and click on Members > Groups > Access summary

You will see two sections: 1) organization-wide group access provides the group access to the entire catalog or all of the workspaces beyond the member default and 2) the direct access control section provides a view of the access the Group has to individual collections or workspaces along with the level of access to each. Users can manage direct access from this view without having to visit each collection or workspace.

This new view makes Group access management much easier by providing a one-stop summary of Group access. You can read more about managing Groups in our documentation portal.

At data.world, our goal is to help organizations unlock the full potential of their data. If you're interested in learning more about agile data governance, please visit our website and book a demo or reach out to your customer service representative.  We look forward to helping you manage your data and transform the way your users discover it!