Assigning Owners
Assigning owners to resources
Benefits to assigning ownership
Assigning owners has many benefits. If your data has ownership defined, you can:
Understand who will be affected by upstream or downstream changes to a dataset
Understand who to talk to regarding information about the data
Get notifications when the datasets change
Identify abandoned data sets no one currently owns, that may need to be maintained or removed
How to assign owners to data in Secoda
After navigating to a Secoda resource, Editors and Admins can assign Owners by clicking the Owners field and selecting the relevant members from the workspace. The owners field is accessible through Catalog views, or in the side panel.
Automating ownership
Please see the Integrationsdocs to see which integrations bring in ownership metadata.
Create an Automations to define ownership and have these fields automatically update on a set schedule.
Try out the Propagating Metadata & Bulk Editing Metadata features to manually bulk add owners to your resources.
Being an owner
Owners are responsible keeping documentation on their datasets up to date. If something looks off with a dataset, or a new user is looking to get acquainted with the data, they can ask questions in the questions tab.
Owners will receive notifications through email and the Secoda app when tables, columns or documentation-related changes. If you have the Secoda Slack integration installed, you will receive notifications through Slack.
Table Owners can add helpful comments or Frequently Asked Questions about a dataset so they’ll show at the top of the documentation tab.
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