Data Catalog

Data Catalog

Data catalog is an organized service that allows users to centralize metadata and learn more about their data sources which help organizations achieve more values from their assets. Following are some advantages to centralizing metadata:

• Consistency and accuracy across the department/government
• Better data congruency, quality and structure
• Makes data easily accessible
• Allow users to self-serve

Why Data Catalog

USGS data Life Cycle

In an enterprise vision, we would like to minimize the number of data silos, get a faster access to what matters most, and function as a single source (during the Data Life Cycle) for better doing.
Data-driven culture empowers users with getting access to their data source. With this, the growing numbers of cloud applications, privacy regulations and security rules are making it more difficult to effectively secure and govern data

Therefor, a Data Catalog is needed to:

• Spend less time searching for data and more time using it to gain insight
• Have a better/safer access to data through governance. Departments have a hard time finding data and controlling who has access to it.
• Reduce the cost of data redundancy and hoarding.
• Better linkage between the technical value of metadata and the business value.

Data Catalog Architecture

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  A work in progress DFO-MPO Data Catalog Conceptual Architecture

List of Stakeholders

Please note this is an initial list.

Please feel free to contact us if you think there's room for improvements.

Sector	Contact Person	Project / Program
Conservation and Protection	Lise Melanson	Department Violation System (DVS)
	Pauline Lalonde	C-STAT
Canada Coast Guard	Shawn Legault and Nicholas O’Hara	SIPA
	Jean-François Coutu	INNAV
	Chris Burnie-Gardiner and Patrick Marion	SISAR
	Bert Paulin	Reporting for CCG programs
Canadian Hydrographic Services	Terry Fanning and Matthew McGowan	Main work is to move science, ocean, and species data to the Government of Canada Open Portal
	Claude Guay	Metadata management and data management for whole science sector
SRS, Science Branch	Theraesa Coyle and Johannie Duhaime	Aquaculture Monitoring Program
Fishery & Assessment Data Section, Science Branch	Bruce A. Patten and Di Wan	Scientific survey documentation for fish population assessment, fish harvest tracking and reporting
Aquaculture Management Directorate, Aquatic Ecosystems Sector	Tyree Lush and Arsenault Shane	Canadian Shellfish Sanitation Program (CSSP) mapping system
Fisheries & Licence Policy / Fisheries and Harbour Management	Mark Ledwell	FHM
Ecosystems and Fisheries Management: System Integration	Aaron Gillis and Andrew Frost	EFM-SI
Information Management and Policy Strategies	Lyn Warner	Open Data Portal
Ocean Data and Information Section	Tobias Spears	To be determined

Data Catalog Team

please feel free to contact us to discuss the project and how you can participate

Name
George Esper
Riham Elhabyan
David Cornwell
Yask Shelat
Abdul K Hamdo