# Enriching a dataset with custom metadata

Available in...

* Cloud API Services Platform
* Cloud Big Data
* Cloud Big Data Platform
* Cloud Data Fabric
* Cloud Data Integration
* Cloud Data Management Platform
* Cloud Pipeline Designer Standard Edition
* Data Fabric

Talend Cloud Data Inventory offers a way to create a structured metadata system and apply custom values to datasets.

Via the Custom attributes menu, you can create new metadata information following a set of predefined rule, to tag your dataset. You can benefit from a better documented inventory to search for datasets belonging to the same categories for example.

In Talend Cloud Data Inventory, custom attributes definitions are divided into two categories:

* The List of values type, for which you create a list of compatible values that users will choose from.
* The Text type, for which users can freely input a value, without restrictions.

What you are going to do is create a new metadata called To clean, giving information on the need for cleansing operations or not. The two possible values will simply be yes or no.

### In this section

* [Creating a new custom attributes definition](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/data-inventory-getting-started/Cloud/creating-new-custom-attributes-definition)
* [Applying a custom attribute value to your dataset](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/data-inventory-getting-started/Cloud/applying-custom-attribute-value-to-your-dataset)