About the Catalog workspace

In the Catalog workspace, you perform catalog administration using keywords and categories. Keywords and categories are used to categorize:

• Users in the Oracle Central Designer Administrator application.
• Study objects in the Oracle Central Designer application.

Categorizing users and study objects with keywords and categories allows for faster and more efficient searching in the Users Browser and Libraries Browser in the Oracle Central Designer application.

• A keyword is an identifier that is associated with users and study objects to facilitate more powerful and efficient searches. A keyword can be system-generated or user-defined. Keywords appear in the Keywords list.
• A category is a hierarchical grouping of keywords. You can create categories only from existing keywords. A category can be automatically generated or manually generated. Categories appear in the Categories tree.

The Catalog workspace contains two catalogs:

• Study Objects catalog—Create keywords and categories for study objects.
• Users catalog—Use system keywords to create categories for users.

For more information, see:

• Types of keywords and categories