Developing Supportive Content

When you develop supportive content, create new terms and categories that represent the structure of an external or internal source, and relate them to business terms to indicate the relationship between the source terminology and your enterprise terminology.

Before you begin

When you start this task, you need the documentation of the source that you want to represent in your business vocabulary. Optionally, you can have the source in a format supported by the Information Governance Catalog (IGC) import. The rules that are defined in Supportive Content categories and Supportive Content terms must be followed to create new supportive content.

About this task

Practitioner role
Business analyst
Business architect
Tools
Information Governance Catalog Web Client with an author role or administrator role (for the import function).

Procedure

  1. Import the supportive content into Information Governance Catalog (IGC).
    • If the source is available in a format that can be directly imported in IGC, import the supportive content categories and terms using one of the import functions. The parent category must be Supportive Content.
    • If the source is available in a format that cannot be directly imported in IGC, define the categories and terms manually within the Supportive Content category.
  2. Update a supportive content term to relate it to business terms.
    1. Go to the IGC Catalog home page and click Search.
    2. Enter the term name to be updated and click Search.
    3. Select the term to update and click the term to see the term details.
    4. Navigate to the Related Terms property and add the related terms from the enterprise terminology within the Business Terms category.
    5. Save the term.
  3. Repeat step 2 for all terms within the supportive content in scope.

Results

This creates supportive content and updates the related terms.