Glossary

Term	Meaning
Datablau DAM	Governance product family covering administration, core governance, and related modules
Metadata	Information describing resource names, structure, origins, meaning, and ownership; distinct from business records
License	Module entitlement; separate from role and data permissions
DDC	Asset product domain: Data Catalog and Data Marketplace
DDS	Security product domain: Data Security and Security Gateway
SQLink	Independently deployable and licensed lineage platform that can extend DAM
DIG	Data Governance Agents, DAM's AI assistance; the UI module is Intelligent Data Governance
Data Marketplace	Business discovery, exploration, and requests for assets and products
Data Services	API development, publication, requests, and calling application management
API marketplace	Published APIs and documentation for application access requests
Calling application	Identity representing an API consumer, managed separately from API authorization
Data Supermarket	Current front-office page or capability name within Data Marketplace
Standards mapping	Association of a metadata field with an applicable standard; semantics and technical properties still require validation
Intelligent Matching	Candidate basic-standard recommendations based on field properties for acceptance or rejection
Grouped Recommendations	Unmapped fields grouped by Chinese business name to identify potential shared definitions
Automated Standards Validation	Task-based checks of field-standard mappings; distinct from checking actual data values
Data quality validation	Execution of technical rules against actual records
Basic Lineage Management	Metadata lineage entitlement, separate from SQLINK
Metric Standards	Basic metric definitions and dimension management within Data Standards
Metric Management	Atomic, calculated, and qualified metric definitions, mappings, queries, monitoring, and access; separately licensed as Data Metrics
Security Gateway	DDS server and Datablau JDBC Driver for dynamic masking and audit
Dynamic masking	Identity- and policy-based query presentation without modifying source values
Classification information item	Reusable semantics describing a class of information and its security category; not an actual database field
Metamodel	Types, attributes, and relationships defining governed object structures
Built-in metamodel	Product-provided model available for harvesting or management
Custom metamodel	Enterprise-designed and published object model
Object collection	Container grouping objects of one type
Attribute collection	Definitions of object fields, types, required status, and presentation
Root node	Starting object or collection for hierarchical harvesting or display
Lineage space	SQLink management scope for database/report resources, jobs, and results
Namespace	Identity scope separating same-name lineage objects across systems or environments
Schema	Database naming scope used in harvesting and lineage identity
DBLink	Database-to-database link used in cross-database lineage
Parsing task	Extracts lineage from SQL, scripts, or task files
Lineage subgraph	Nodes and edges selected by reference object, direction, depth, and filters
Transformation logic	Scripts, expressions, or steps connecting inputs to outputs
Forced metadata binding	Requires parsed objects to match harvested metadata; failure to match can fail parsing
Preprocessing	Splitting, replacing, filtering, or formatting input before parsing
Parsing report	Successes, failures, omissions, and errors for a run
Database resources	Database metadata registered in a lineage space
Report resources	Report platforms, files, and objects in a lineage space
OpenLineage	Open event protocol describing jobs and input/output datasets
Lineage map	Graph exploration of upstream/downstream paths and levels
Lineage level	Granularity: schema, entity, property, or operator
Lineage depth	Number of relationship expansion steps
Second-level lineage	Processing detail beneath the current relationship view
Application scenario	Saved analysis scope for monitoring, impact, or structural quality
Impact broadcast	Notification of potential impact; separate from change approval
Metadata coverage	Coverage of registered or harvested metadata within a defined scope; use the page's calculation
Lineage coverage	Coverage of lineage objects or relationships within a defined scope
Operator lineage	Connections among processing operators, inputs, and outputs
Code slicing	Focused code fragments relevant to selected object relationships; source scripts remain unchanged
Broken-lineage analysis	Investigation of missing upstream, downstream, or intermediate nodes
Lineage-based recommendations	Catalog or classification suggestions using dependency relationships, subject to review
Data product	Asset collection or service description discoverable and requestable through the marketplace
Data intelligence space	DIG workspace for assets, documents, governance phases, and context publishing
Source configuration	System Agent or published template used to instantiate a space agent
Governance context	Authorized assets, semantics, and documents used by an agent; not copied source data
Context quality report	Coverage checks for assets, semantics, standards, lineage, and classification; not model accuracy
Space Agent	Natural-language query access to authorized space context
Space MCP	Published context tools for external AI applications; opposite direction from DIG calling an external MCP
MCP	Model Context Protocol for connecting agents to capabilities through tools
LLM	Large language model for text understanding and generation
Text Embedding	Model converting text to numeric vectors for semantic retrieval
Skill	Reusable task instructions and execution methods
Governance Sprite	Reusable capability performing one bounded atomic task
Routine	Workflow combining Sprites with node order, mappings, and failure policies
Input schema	Parameter names, types, and constraints; distinct from a database schema
Proactive governance	Resident tasks monitoring changes and generating proposals for review