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title: Use glossary, tags, and governance views to organize work
url: https://documentation.cluedin.net/learning-paths/data-steward/glossary-tags-and-governance
content_type: tutorial
section: Learning paths > Data Steward course
---

# Use glossary, tags, and governance views to organize work

> tutorial: Guided end-to-end learning.

## Learning outcome

Use named record populations and quality signals to turn one-off investigations into repeatable stewardship work.

## Scenario

Your team repeatedly investigates the same business population and quality condition. You need a shared way to identify the population, monitor the issue, and decide what action follows.

## Read

- [Work with glossary](https://documentation.cluedin.net/govern/work-with-glossary.md)
- [Tag monitoring](https://documentation.cluedin.net/govern/tags/tag-monitoring.md)

## Exercise

1. Create or review a glossary term representing a meaningful record population.
2. Open Tag Monitoring and choose one quality-related tag.
3. Record the affected count, trend, rule provenance, and sample records.
4. Decide what the tag should mean operationally and who should respond to it.
5. Choose the next action: investigation, clean project, AI-assisted remediation, rule/mapping review, or source escalation.

## Deliverable

A governance note defining one reusable population, one quality signal, its owner, and the expected action when the signal appears or increases.

## Complete when

- You can explain when to use a glossary term versus a tag.
- You can interpret a tag as a monitored quality signal rather than only a label.
- The signal has a clear owner and response path.

## Next

Continue to [Use AI agents safely for stewardship work](https://documentation.cluedin.net/learning-paths/data-steward/ai-assisted-stewardship.md).

Up: [Data Steward course](https://documentation.cluedin.net/learning-paths/data-steward.md)