Data Glossary

Top-level UI section for the in-app Business Glossary — term entities, term-to-term linking, term-to-data-entity descriptive associations, ownership, and RBAC.

The Data Glossary section of ODD Platform is the home for the in-app Business Glossary — operator-curated term entities that name and describe the concepts your data represents. The role is durable: anything that captures the meaning of an entity (what Customer means in your taxonomy, how Order relates to Line Item, who owns each definition) belongs here.

ODD covers Data Glossary fully through the Business Glossary feature. See the Data Governance map for the position of Data Glossary among the other governance pillars.

Not the Main Concepts page. The Main Concepts docs page captures the project's vocabulary — Data Entity, Plugin, Push adapter, ODDRN. The Business Glossary described here is the catalog's vocabulary — operator-authored term entities that live inside ODD Platform and link to the data they describe. Same word "glossary", different things.

Open it from the top-level navigation Dictionary tab (the in-app surface for browsing and curating terms). Term entities also surface inline on every data-entity detail page in the Terms section once descriptive associations are made.

Subsections

• Business Glossary — full reference for terms as catalog entities: the Dictionary tab UI, namespace-scoped terms, ownership and the seven TERM_* RBAC permissions, term-to-term linking (description-text mentions vs direct links), term-to-data-entity descriptive associations (the Wikipedia-About-style walkthrough), and the API surface.

Why this is a separate pillar

For how Data Glossary relates to the other governance pillars (Data Discovery, Data Modelling, Master Data Management, Data Lineage, Data Quality), see Main Concepts → Data Governance map → Pillar differentiation — the canonical home for the six-pillar framing. Glossary is its own pillar because terms are a separate entity class with their own lifecycle (create / approve / link / retire), ownership model, RBAC, and search surface — first-class catalog citizens that data entities reference, not metadata attached to other entities.

Where to next

• Business Glossary — the dedicated reference covering terms, term-to-term linking, descriptive associations, ownership, and the API surface.

• API Reference → Glossary — the HTTP surface for term CRUD, term-to-term linkage, and term-to-entity assignment.

• Permissions — the platform-wide permission catalog, including the TERM_* rows.

• Main Concepts → Data Governance map — Data Glossary's position among the governance pillars.