By now, you have created an information catalog and ensured that you and your users can open it. Next, you must complete some necessary preparatory tasks so that you can populate your information catalog with descriptive data about your business information.
Start by organizing the information that you want to include. For example, you can plan to include descriptive data about your organization's personnel records, financial spreadsheets, building plans, and digital images from advertising campaigns. Each of these items is a different type of information resource.
When you have categorized the types of information that you want to include in your information catalog, you identify the types of information in your information catalog.