Data Organization with Code Lists
Keep your data structured and easy to manage with Dawiso's Code Lists. Classify objects by business area, sensitivity, documentation type, and more to improve clarity, compliance, and collaboration across your organization.
About this lesson
A code list is a controlled vocabulary: a fixed set of allowed values that anyone classifying an object has to pick from. It sounds like a small thing and it decides whether classification is usable. Free-text tagging produces 'PII', 'pii', 'personal data' and 'sensitive' as four unrelated labels for one concept, so no filter, report or access rule can rely on any of them. A code list makes the same idea one value, which is what turns a label into something you can govern by.
Who it is for. Data stewards and anyone responsible for making the catalog consistent enough to act on.
Points to cover
- What Code Lists are and how they work
- Easily assign labels to objects
- Use labels to improve organization, compliance, and searchability
What you will be able to do
- Explain what a code list is and when a controlled vocabulary beats free-text tagging
- Classify objects by business area, sensitivity and documentation type
- Use labels to filter the catalog and to evidence coverage for compliance work
Go deeper
Classification is what makes the catalog searchable by meaning rather than by name. Data Catalog
