The two big challenges here are building a culture that encourages people to actually document their data, and secondly is providing the tools for data document

The two big challenges here are building a culture that encourages people to actually document their data, and secondly is providing the tools for data documentation. There are lots of good tools for data profiling, but a good data catalog is something that is structured, easy to use and actually separate to the data. By keeping your catalog separate to the data you get more people involved which means more people can find and know who to talk to, to take advantage of data. That’s why we’ve built our startup - aristotlemetadata.com - to give organisations a tool for users to collaboratively document why their data is important and what it means conceptually, along with raw column information (which is an easier, solved problem). Building data culture is a bit more challenging, but again tools play a role, as if they can see others getting involved in data governance, can see examples and see others in their organisation getting more value from data more efficiently they are more likely to want to be involved too.