### Contents - [**Articles**](#resources-articles) - [**Discussions**](#resources-discussions) - [**Reports**](#resources-reports) # Active Metadata Management Software Resources ##### Articles, Discussions, and Reports to expand your knowledge on Active Metadata Management Software Resource pages are designed to give you a cross-section of information we have on specific categories. You'll find [articles](#resources-articles) from our experts, [discussions](#resources-discussions) from users like you, and [reports](#resources-reports) from industry data. [ContentsExpand/Collapse Contents](#) - [**Articles**](#resources-articles) - [**Discussions**](#resources-discussions) - [**Reports**](#resources-reports) ## Active Metadata Management Software Articles [![What You Need to Know about G2’s Active Metadata Management Category](https://learn.g2.com/hubfs/active%20metadata-PF.jpg "What You Need to Know about G2’s Active Metadata Management Category")](https://www.g2.com/articles/active-metadata-management-category-on-g2) [ ### What You Need to Know about G2’s Active Metadata Management Category ](https://www.g2.com/articles/active-metadata-management-category-on-g2) Metadata is what describes your data. It’s the label on your containers that tells you which one contains sugar or salt. It's the card that the valet gives you when you park your vehicle at the shopping mall. In the world of tech, it includes information such as the author of a file, file size, time of creation, last updated, etc., (basic metadata elements). Most of this data has remained passive for the longest time (just storing data in a static catalog), leaving the wealth of data insights it can generate unexplored. [ ![Preethica Furtado](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Preethica Furtado") PF ](https://learn.g2.com/author/preethica-furtado) by Preethica Furtado ## Active Metadata Management Software Discussions 0 Question on: IBM watsonx.data intelligence [Are there data-preparation capabilities in Watson Knowledge Catalog?](/discussions/capabilities-d52e8a57-4b4f-49c1-9970-b787ccc2c119) Capabilities Yes. Data-preparation capabilities are available through Data Refinery, which is part of Watson Knowledge Catalog. Data Refinery provides a rich set of capabilities that not only allow you to discover, cleanse, and transform your data with built-in operations, but it also comes with powerful profiling and visualization tools, such as charts, graphs and stats to help you interact with and understand your data. Data-access-and-transform policies defined in Watson Knowledge Catalog are also enforced in Data Refinery to ensure that sensitive data that originated from governed catalogs remains protected. Answered: Emma Tucker on October 17, 2019 [Your answer](/discussions/capabilities-d52e8a57-4b4f-49c1-9970-b787ccc2c119/comments/new?remote=true) 0 Question on: IBM watsonx.data intelligence [Does Watson Knowledge Catalog provide classification services?](/discussions/capabilities-c277dcfe-a08e-49a4-8b8e-381d794c7e0b) Capabilities Watson Knowledge Catalog can automatically classify columns in your data assets when they are added to the catalog. Built-in components provide over 160 attribute classifiers, including names, emails, postal addresses, credit card numbers, driver's license numbers, government identification numbers, dates of birth, demographic information, Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) numbers and more. Catalogs also profile unstructured data assets and extract metadata from content, such as categories, concepts, sentiment and emotion. Answered: Emma Tucker on October 17, 2019 [Your answer](/discussions/capabilities-c277dcfe-a08e-49a4-8b8e-381d794c7e0b/comments/new?remote=true) 0 Question on: IBM watsonx.data intelligence [Can you delete or change the original source of data with a data policy that masks data?](/discussions/data-sources-f446100c-eb24-4621-9cf2-a3170fa34e4e) Data Sources No. When a data-protection policy anonymizes sensitive data in the catalog, only the preview data which is managed by the application is transformed. The original source data is not modified. 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