Master Data Management

Master Data Management aspect of Data Governance — operator-curated reference data managed inside the platform.

The Master Data Management section of ODD Platform is the home for operator-curated reference data — the canonical lists, lookup values, and code tables that downstream pipelines and BI tools join against. The section is intentionally narrow today (one child surface — Lookup Tables), but the role is durable: anything that documents authoritative reference data managed inside the platform itself (rather than ingested from an external source) belongs here.

ODD covers Master Data Management partially today — what ships is Reference Data Management (operator-managed lookup / reference tables as first-class catalog entities). Full MDM semantics (golden records, survivorship rules, stewardship workflows) are not part of ODD; see the Data Governance map for the position of MDM in the overall pillar set.

Open it from the Master Data top-level toolbar tab.

Subsections

• Lookup Tables — operator-curated reference tables managed inside the platform. Schema (9 PostgreSQL field types), data tab, RBAC (9 LOOKUP_TABLE_* permissions on three surfaces — table, definition, data), full /api/referencedata/ API surface, and direct PostgreSQL access via lookup_tables_schema.

Why this is a separate pillar

For how Master Data Management relates to the other governance pillars (Data Discovery, Data Modelling, Data Lineage, Data Glossary, Data Quality), see Main Concepts → Data Governance map → Pillar differentiation — the canonical home for the six-pillar framing. The closest neighbour is Data Modelling — both involve operator authoring inside the platform — but the difference is structural: Data Modelling artefacts attach to existing entities (a Query Example links to a dataset that a collector ingested); Master Data artefacts are entities (a Lookup Table is itself a Data Entity of type LOOKUP_TABLE).

Where to next

• Lookup Tables — the only Master Data feature today; full reference.

• Main Concepts → Data Governance map — for the position of Master Data Management among the other governance pillars (Data Discovery, Data Lineage, Data Quality, Data Modelling, Data Glossary).

• Permissions — for the regenerated permission list (includes the 9 LOOKUP_TABLE_* rows).