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Managing Your Metadata in Wondaris

Managing Your Metadata in Wondaris

In Wondaris, metadata is like the "smart labelling system" for your data. It helps you, and the platform, understand what each piece of information means. This understanding is crucial for everything from building powerful enrichment models to ensuring your audiences & activation mapping are accurate and meaningful.

Wondaris leverages advanced AI technology to give you a head start with metadata, but your expert review is key to perfecting it.

What is Business Metadata in Wondaris?

Business metadata labelling & tags are Wondaris' way of understanding the business meaning of each column (field) in your connected tables. For instance, a column named cust_id might be labelled as Loyalty ID tagged as Customer ID, while tx_amt could be labelled & tagged as Transaction Amount.

These tags are incredibly powerful because they:

  • Boost Enrichment Models: Help Wondaris precisely understand your data to build more accurate and relevant enrichment models.

  • Enhance Features: Power other intelligent features within Wondaris, making your experience smoother and more intuitive.

  • Improve Understanding: Make it easier for everyone in your team to quickly grasp what each data point represents.

How Wondaris Helps You with Metadata (and Your Role in Perfecting It!)

Wondaris takes the heavy lifting out of initial metadata setup by using smart automation:

  1. Automatic Suggestions: As soon as you connect a table to Wondaris, our powerful Language Model (LLM) service springs into action in the background. It automatically analyses your column names and content to suggest:

    • Business Metadata Tags: How Wondaris should categorise each column (e.g., Customer ID, Event Type, Product Name).

    • Friendly Names: More readable names for your columns in the Wondaris interface (e.g., changing str_dt to Start Date).

    • Descriptions: Initial explanations of what the column contains.

    • Categorical Data Tags: Identification of columns that hold specific categories (e.g., Gender, Product Category).

    • ...and other valuable information!

  2. Your Essential Review and Refinement: While the LLM is smart, it's not perfect! Your manual review and updates are crucial for ensuring the absolute correctness and precision of your metadata. You are the expert on your data, and your input makes Wondaris truly shine.

Step-by-Step: Reviewing and Updating Your Metadata

Follow these simple steps to ensure your metadata is accurate and optimised for Wondaris:

  1. Navigate to Source Connection: From the Wondaris main menu, go to the "Source Connection" section.

  2. Click 'Metadata': Within the Source Connection area, you'll find a "Metadata" option. Click on it to access your connected tables' metadata settings.

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  3. Select a Table: Choose the specific table you wish to review and update metadata for (e.g., your Customer table, an Event table, or a Related table).

  4. Review and Update Information: Now you'll see a list of all the columns (fields) in your selected table, along with the suggestions from the LLM.

    • Carefully review each suggested Business Metadata Tag, Friendly Name, Description, and any other tags.

    • Make any necessary edits to ensure they accurately reflect the true meaning and purpose of your data in a business context.

    • Add details where the LLM might have missed something, or refine existing descriptions for clarity.

    • Confirm categorical tags for fields that hold specific, distinct categories of data.

Why Your Review Matters

By taking a few moments to review and refine the automatically generated metadata, you empower Wondaris to deliver more precise insights, build more effective enrichment models, and make your data more understandable and usable for everyone in your organisation. It's a small investment that yields big returns!