# Publishing metadata into a data catalogue

**URL:** <https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/publishing-metadata-into-a-data-catalogue/7354>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** metadata\
**Created:** [March 17, 2023, 12:56am UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/publishing-metadata-into-a-data-catalogue/7354 "2023-03-17T00:56:39Z")\
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Has anybody been able to publish the table and column descriptions, and other meta data, from dbt-core into a Data Catalogue, particularly Alation