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title: "Custom Metadata | Atlan"
url: "https://atlan.com/custom-metadata/"
description: "Technical. Business. Personal. All kinds of metadata. One kind of home - Atlan."
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> Atlan is hosting Context Conference, bringing together the leaders and builders at the frontier of giving AI the context it needs to understand their business. It runs online on October 28, 2026, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM ET. Atlan co-founder Prukalpa Sankar opens and closes the day. Leaders from AstraZeneca, BNY and Verizon share why they invest in context and what they get from it. Registrants get early access to The AI Context Gap, a new study from MIT Technology Review Insights. Register: https://atlan.com/context-conference/

**Technical. Business. Personal. Custom.** All kinds of metadata, one kind of home: Atlan. This page covers Atlan's custom metadata: a no-code builder for metadata widgets, crowdsourcing inputs, and APIs that pull metadata in from other tools and turn it into filters.

[Book a Demo](https://atlan.com/forms/talk-to-sales-contact/) / [See Product Tour](https://atlan.com/context-layer-demo/)

## Customer quote

"We played around with custom metadata yesterday, I think this is some of the coolest stuff we've ever seen in a data catalog...especially since it's backed by APIs to ingest data from our DQ tool." - Spencer Lewin, Data Steward, Pluralsight

## Easy-to-create modular widgets

The Custom Metadata Builder is powered by a modular, no-code interface. Create widgets and start crowdsourcing metadata in minutes.

## Delightful experiences for crowdsourcing metadata

- **Mention teammates:** assign contributors by searching and tagging user profiles.
- **Stay up to date:** add freshness dates through a calendar interface.
- **Input quality scores:** users can input data quality scores via defined numeric values.

## Automated API enrichment: bring context from your favorite tool

Powerful and easy-to-use APIs bring in metadata from any tool in your data stack, and you can use it to create filters so your team can find the context and data they need. [Atlan API docs](https://apidocs.atlan.com/)

## Create the context you need

Custom metadata lets you mold Atlan to your team's daily workflows. Examples:

- **Surface failed pipelines with ELT metadata:** import metadata from orchestration tools like Airflow via APIs.
- **Advanced filtering with custom grouping:** group assets by business domains to make filtering easier for end users.
- **Manage data projects with teams and dates:** add dates and tag teams to your assets in custom metadata widgets.

[Book a Demo](https://atlan.com/forms/talk-to-sales-contact/)