data used to classify and categorize master, transactional and curated data

typically, this data is based on industry or organizational standards

Countries

States

ISO Codes

data about the business entities that provide context for business transactions

the attributes of these entities typically change very slowly

Companies

Departments

Offices

Products

People

data describing business transactions between entities

the attributes and rows that describes these transactions will change at the rate of the business processes

transactional data can change very rapidly

Orders

Applications

Messages

Activities

data that describes the structure of the data

Table Structure & Definition

Data Lineage