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title: "Announcing the Public Preview of Discover and Domains, powered by Unity Catalog"
description: "Databricks announces the Public Preview of Domains and the Discover page, powered by Unity Catalog, to help people and agents identify relevant, high-quality, and safe data and AI assets. Domains organize tables, dashboards, notebooks, queries, metric views, Genie Agents, and apps by business structure, while Discover provides an internal marketplace with search, certification signals, popularity and trending indicators, and AI-powered recommendations. Data stewards can create domains and subdomains, certify assets, add descriptions and contacts, and curate page sections and pinned content. Domains extend Unity Catalog Semantics and feed Genie Ontology, giving agents business context for narrowing retrieval, prioritizing trusted assets, and interpreting metrics within each user’s existing permissions. The features are available in Public Preview through a Databricks workspace, where organizations can create domains and curate assets."
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# Announcing the Public Preview of Discover and Domains, powered by Unity Catalog

[Databricks](https://yomu.fyi/company/databricks) · Stef Bran Melendez, Kelly Albano · Jul 21, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Databricks announces the Public Preview of Domains and the Discover page, powered by Unity Catalog, to help people and agents identify relevant, high-quality, and safe data and AI assets. Domains organize tables, dashboards, notebooks, queries, metric views, Genie Agents, and apps by business structure, while Discover provides an internal marketplace with search, certification signals, popularity and trending indicators, and AI-powered recommendations. Data stewards can create domains and subdomains, certify assets, add descriptions and contacts, and curate page sections and pinned content. Domains extend Unity Catalog Semantics and feed Genie Ontology, giving agents business context for narrowing retrieval, prioritizing trusted assets, and interpreting metrics within each user’s existing permissions. The features are available in Public Preview through a Databricks workspace, where organizations can create domains and curate assets.

## Context

As data and AI estates grow, people and agents can struggle to determine which assets are relevant, high quality, and safe to use, increasing the risk of incorrect tables, metrics, or duplicated work. Agents also need business context to interpret terms, identify relevant assets, and select trusted sources.

## Approach / What changed

Domains organize data and AI assets by business structure, with subdomains, certifications, descriptions, contacts, curated sections, and pinned content. The Discover page provides a human-facing internal marketplace with search and AI-powered recommendations. Domains extend Unity Catalog Semantics and feed Genie Ontology so agents can use this organizational context within existing permissions.

## Takeaways

- Discover covers tables, dashboards, notebooks, queries, metric views, Genie Agents, and apps, organizing them by business domain rather than technical location.
- Data stewards can certify assets, create domain hierarchies, annotate domains, and curate sections to make trusted content easier to find.
- Domains help Genie Ontology narrow agent retrieval to relevant domains and prioritize trusted assets and metrics while respecting each user’s existing permissions.

**Tags:** [AI Agents](https://yomu.fyi/topic/ai-agents), [Databricks](https://yomu.fyi/topic/databricks), [Ontology](https://yomu.fyi/topic/ontology), [Unity Catalog](https://yomu.fyi/topic/unity-catalog)

- Source: [Databricks](https://www.databricks.com/blog/announcing-public-preview-discover-and-domains-powered-unity-catalog)
- Source URL: https://www.databricks.com/blog/announcing-public-preview-discover-and-domains-powered-unity-catalog
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-08-30T16:53:57.445Z

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