## Metadata export

URL: https://docs.atlan.com/platform/lakehouse/references/metadata-export-talk-to-data-marketplace-reverse-sync

> Use Lakehouse to export rich metadata for AI applications, data marketplaces, and syncing context back to source systems.

# Metadata export

Organizations need to export metadata from Atlan to support AI applications, internal data marketplaces, and governance workflows across source systems. Use Lakehouse as a single place to query enriched metadata and feed it into downstream tools and applications.

The Gold namespace is built natively into the catalog -- no additional setup is needed. You can run these queries directly on the `gold.ASSETS` table and the raw tables in `entity_metadata` (such as `entity_metadata.Readme`, `entity_metadata.CustomMetadata`, and `entity_metadata.TagRelationship`) to export metadata for AI assistants, data marketplaces, and reverse sync workflows.

### Retrieve asset metadata

Use this query to retrieve assets from Atlan with enrichment metadata that you can export to external tools. It's particularly useful for:
- Finding assets with good documentation. Update the `WHERE` clause to filter assets that match your use case. Several examples are shown in the section below.
- Powering data discovery, quality, or governance dashboards. Update the `<database>` placeholder to match your environment.
- Identifying certified and actively used assets.

```sql
USE <database>;

SELECT
 A.asset_name, -- Human-readable name of the asset
 A.guid, -- Unique identifier for the asset
 A.asset_qualified_name, -- Fully qualified name (e.g., db.schema.table)
 A.asset_type, -- Type of asset: Table, Column, View, etc.
 A.description, -- System description
 A.user_description, -- User-authored description
 A.status, -- Lifecycle status: ACTIVE, DELETED
 A.certificate_status, -- Certification state: VERIFIED, DRAFT, DEPRECATED
 A.owner_users, -- Array of asset owners
 tr.TAGS, -- Array of tags applied to the asset
 R.description AS README_TEXT,-- Rich documentation from README (if present)
 A.popularity_score, -- Usage-based popularity metric
 A.has_lineage -- Boolean indicating if lineage exists
FROM
 gold.assets A
LEFT JOIN
 entity_metadata.Readme R
 ON A.readme_guid = R.GUID -- Join README content to the asset
LEFT JOIN (
 SELECT guid, ARRAY_AGG(tagName) AS TAGS
 FROM entity_metadata.TagRelationship
 WHERE status = 'ACTIVE'
 GROUP BY guid
) tr ON A.guid = tr.guid
WHERE
 A.asset_type IN ('Table', 'Column', 'View') -- Focus on core data assets
 AND A.connector_name IN ('snowflake', 'redshift', 'bigquery') -- Cloud warehouses
 AND R.description IS NOT NULL -- Only return assets with README documentation
LIMIT 10; -- Sample output for inspection
```

> ***Sample output** — see full content on the documentation site.*

### Retrieve asset enrichment with custom metadata

### Snowflake

```sql
USE <database>;
-- ============================================
-- ASSET ENRICHMENT WITH CUSTOM METADATA SCORES
-- ============================================

WITH CM_DETAILS AS (
 SELECT
 CM.GUID,

 -- Create JSON object using LISTAGG and PARSE_JSON
 PARSE_JSON(
 '{' ||
 LISTAGG(
 '"' || CM.attributeName || '":"' ||
 REPLACE(COALESCE(CM.attributeValue, ''), '"', '\\"') || '"',
 ','
 ) WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY CM.attributeName)
 || '}'
 ) AS CM_ATTRIBUTES_JSON

 FROM entity_metadata.CustomMetadata CM
 WHERE
 CM.STATUS = 'ACTIVE'
 AND CM.customMetadataSetName = 'AI Readiness' -- 🔧 CUSTOMIZE
 AND CM.attributeValue IS NOT NULL
 GROUP BY CM.GUID
)

SELECT
 A.asset_name,
 A.guid,
 A.asset_qualified_name,
 A.asset_type,
 A.description,
 A.user_description,
 R.description AS README_TEXT,
 A.status,
 A.certificate_status,
 A.owner_users,
 tr.TAGS,
 A.popularity_score,
 A.has_lineage,

 -- All Custom Metadata attributes as JSON
 CMS.CM_ATTRIBUTES_JSON

FROM gold.assets A
LEFT JOIN entity_metadata.Readme R ON A.readme_guid = R.GUID
LEFT JOIN CM_DETAILS CMS ON A.guid = CMS.GUID
LEFT JOIN (
 SELECT guid, ARRAY_AGG(tagName) AS TAGS
 FROM entity_metadata.TagRelationship
 WHERE status = 'ACTIVE'
 GROUP BY guid
) tr ON A.guid = tr.guid

WHERE
 A.asset_type IN ('Table', 'Column', 'View')
 AND A.connector_name IN ('snowflake', 'redshift', 'bigquery')
 AND A.status = 'ACTIVE'
 AND CMS.CM_ATTRIBUTES_JSON IS NOT NULL
 AND A.owner_users IS NOT NULL

LIMIT 5;
```

Replace the owner value, such as `john.doe@company.com`, to match your environment.

### Databricks

```sql
USE <database>;
-- ============================================
-- ASSET ENRICHMENT WITH CUSTOM METADATA SCORES
-- ============================================

WITH CM_JSON AS (
 SELECT
 CM.GUID,

 -- Store as parallel arrays (simpler, more reliable)
 collect_list(CM.attributeName) AS SCORE_ATTRIBUTE_NAMES,
 collect_list(CM.attributeValue) AS SCORE_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES,

 -- Also create JSON string for easy extraction
 concat(
 '{',
 concat_ws(
 ',',
 collect_list(
 concat(
 '"', CM.attributeName, '":"',
 regexp_replace(coalesce(CM.attributeValue, ''), '"', '\\\\"'), '"'
 )
 )
 ),
 '}'
 ) AS CM_ATTRIBUTES_JSON

 FROM entity_metadata.CustomMetadata CM
 WHERE
 CM.STATUS = 'ACTIVE'
 AND CM.customMetadataSetName = 'AI Readiness' -- 🔧 CUSTOMIZE: Your CM set name
 AND CM.attributeValue IS NOT NULL
 GROUP BY CM.GUID
)

SELECT
 -- ========================================
 -- ASSET IDENTIFICATION
 -- ========================================
 A.asset_name,
 A.guid,
 A.asset_qualified_name,
 A.asset_type,

 -- ========================================
 -- DOCUMENTATION
 -- ========================================
 A.description,
 A.user_description,
 R.description AS README_TEXT,

 -- ========================================
 -- GOVERNANCE METADATA
 -- ========================================
 A.status,
 A.certificate_status,
 A.owner_users,
 tr.TAGS,

 -- ========================================
 -- USAGE METRICS
 -- ========================================
 A.popularity_score,
 A.has_lineage,

 -- ========================================
 -- CUSTOM METADATA (Multiple Formats)
 -- ========================================
 -- Option 1: JSON string for extraction
 CMS.CM_ATTRIBUTES_JSON

FROM gold.assets A

LEFT JOIN entity_metadata.Readme R
 ON A.readme_guid = R.GUID

LEFT JOIN CM_JSON CMS
 ON A.guid = CMS.GUID

LEFT JOIN (
 SELECT guid, collect_list(tagName) AS TAGS
 FROM entity_metadata.TagRelationship
 WHERE status = 'ACTIVE'
 GROUP BY guid
) tr ON A.guid = tr.guid

WHERE
 A.connector_name IN ('snowflake', 'redshift', 'bigquery', 'oracle')
 AND A.status = 'ACTIVE'
 AND CMS.CM_ATTRIBUTES_JSON IS NOT NULL
 AND A.owner_users IS NOT NULL
 AND size(A.owner_users) > 0

LIMIT 10;
```

### BigQuery

```sql
SET @@dataset_id = '<database>';

-- ============================================
-- ASSET ENRICHMENT WITH CUSTOM METADATA SCORES
-- ============================================

WITH CM_JSON AS (
 SELECT
 CM.GUID,

 -- Construct JSON object as string
 PARSE_JSON(
 CONCAT(
 '{',
 STRING_AGG(
 CONCAT(
 '"', CM.attributeName, '":"',
 IFNULL(CM.attributeValue, ''), '"'
 ),
 ','
 ORDER BY CM.attributeName
 ),
 '}'
 )
 ) AS CM_ATTRIBUTES_JSON

 FROM entity_metadata.CustomMetadata CM
 WHERE
 CM.STATUS = 'ACTIVE'
 AND CM.customMetadataSetName = 'AI Readiness' -- 🔧 CUSTOMIZE
 GROUP BY CM.GUID
)

SELECT
 A.asset_name,
 A.guid,
 A.asset_qualified_name,
 A.asset_type,
 A.description,
 A.user_description,
 R.description AS README_TEXT,
 A.status,
 A.certificate_status,
 A.owner_users,
 tr.TAGS,
 A.popularity_score,
 A.has_lineage,

 CMS.CM_ATTRIBUTES_JSON,

 -- Extract specific attributes
 JSON_EXTRACT_SCALAR(CMS.CM_ATTRIBUTES_JSON, '$.data_quality_score') AS data_quality_score,
 JSON_EXTRACT_SCALAR(CMS.CM_ATTRIBUTES_JSON, '$.ai_readiness_score') AS ai_readiness_score

FROM gold.assets A
LEFT JOIN entity_metadata.Readme R ON A.readme_guid = R.GUID
LEFT JOIN CM_JSON CMS ON A.guid = CMS.GUID
LEFT JOIN (
 SELECT guid, ARRAY_AGG(tagName) AS TAGS
 FROM entity_metadata.TagRelationship
 WHERE status = 'ACTIVE'
 GROUP BY guid
) tr ON A.guid = tr.guid

WHERE
 A.connector_name IN ('snowflake', 'redshift', 'bigquery', 'oracle')
 AND A.status = 'ACTIVE'
 AND CMS.CM_ATTRIBUTES_JSON IS NOT NULL
 AND A.owner_users IS NOT NULL
 AND ARRAY_LENGTH(A.owner_users) > 0

LIMIT 10;
```

> ***Sample output** — see full content on the documentation site.*

_Last updated: 29 April 2026._

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