The Catalog Curator
Description
Accelerate critical table's business description curation through relevant, context-aware questions for stewards, thereby enriching organizational context.
Details
Business value
- Improve metadata completeness and description quality
- Reduce governance turnaround time and manual effort
- Optimize steward workload distribution
- Improve AI/RAG grounding accuracy and enable governance productivity reporting
Who benefits
- Data Governance Managers
- Governance Admins
- Data Stewards
- Data Owners
Step 1 — Identify Critical Tables
Use the Critical Tables Identifier Recipe output to identify the tables that require curation.
Step 2 — Exclude Tables with Inherited Descriptions
Remove tables associated with terms where description inheritance already exists.
Step 3 — Exclude Previously Assigned AI Questions
Remove tables with previously assigned AI questions to avoid duplication and reassignment.
Step 4 — Enrich Metadata Context
Bring together the existing business description, schema name, and assigned steward for each table.
Step 5 — Evaluate Steward Load
Check each steward's unanswered question count before assigning new questions.
Step 6 — Apply Capacity Planning Rule
Prevent new assignments to stewards who already have more than 10 unanswered questions.
Step 7 — Generate AI Questions
Generate up to 3 non-repetitive, context-aware questions per table based on business purpose, stakeholders, usage, business rules, KPIs, and regulatory implications.
Step 8 — Produce Final Output
Produce the final set of assignable targeted questions for metadata curation.
| Insight Category | What the recipe discovered | Business Impact |
|---|---|---|
| Steward Capacity | Stewards with more than 10 unanswered questions are identified before new assignments are made. | Reduces over-assignment and improves curation turnaround time. |
| Metadata Quality | Tables with ambiguous or incomplete descriptions receive focused questions to capture missing business context. | Improves metadata completeness and description quality. |
| Governance Bottlenecks | Unanswered question load and assignment patterns reveal areas where governance activity is constrained. | Enables better workload distribution and executive visibility into governance productivity. |