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title: "Glossary Parity Worksheet"
url: "https://atlan.com/resources/glossary-parity/"
description: "A practical worksheet to align your existing glossary fields with Atlan's glossary structure, ensuring consistency, discoverability, and better metadata management."
keywords: "atlan, glossary parity worksheet"
---

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The Atlan Glossary Parity Worksheet is a hands-on resource to help teams align their existing glossary or business terminology with Atlan's glossary framework. It lists Atlan's glossary fields with explanations and prompts you to map each to your own internal glossary fields, so teams can migrate or synchronize metadata and establish a common language for data use. Particularly valuable for data governance leads, business analysts, and platform owners harmonizing definitions across teams and systems.

## About this template

Key Atlan glossary components covered:

- **Glossary, Category, and Term**: the core structure for grouping related terms and defining key concepts.
- **Description and Readme**: explain the meaning of terms, capture context, and document usage in detail.
- **Certificate and Owners**: the status of a term (draft, verified, deprecated) and the people responsible for it.
- **Linked assets, Related terms, and Recommended terms**: connect glossary entries with data assets or similar terms.
- **Synonyms, Antonyms, and Translated terms**: manage variations in language and meaning across teams or geographies.
- **Valid values, Classifies, Classified by**: define acceptable values and create hierarchical relationships among terms.
- **Tags and Announcements**: group assets for discoverability and highlight updates or important notes.

With the worksheet, teams can:

- Translate their existing glossary into Atlan's framework.
- Capture additional information through custom metadata or Readmes when no direct field exists.
- Ensure terms are consistently defined, managed, and discoverable.
- Build stronger foundations for data literacy, governance, and trust.