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title: Compliance Forms Overview
description: "DataHub Compliance Forms enable structured, crowdsourced documentation and classification of critical data assets across your organization."
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# About DataHub Compliance Forms

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**DataHub Compliance Forms** streamline the process of documenting, annotating, and classifying your most critical Data Assets through a collaborative, crowdsourced approach.

With Compliance Forms, you can execute large-scale compliance initiatives by assigning tasks (e.g., documentation, tagging, or classification requirements) to the appropriate stakeholders — data owners, stewards, and subject matter experts.

## What are Compliance Forms?

A **Compliance Form** is a flexible and centrally managed tool that enables your data governance or compliance teams to define, enforce, and monitor requirements for specific Data Assets or Columns.

A Compliance Form consists of:

1. **Assets:** The Data Assets or Columns for which the Form must be completed. These represent the scope of the compliance initiative.

2. **Questions:** The set of requirements or conditions that must be completed for each asset. Questions are a vehicle to collect key attributes for your data assets. These can range from simple to complex, with questions that require differing types of answers to complete. Examples include Descriptions, Domains, Owners, Tags, Glossary Terms, and custom Structured Properties.

3. **Assignees:** The users or groups responsible for completing the Form (e.g., asset owners, domain experts, or stewards).

Once a Compliance Form is defined, it can be published. When a form is published, the assignees who are required to complete the requirements will be notified via the Inbox of the tasks that they must complete. In addition, analytics will begin to be gathered about the assets that are meeting or violating the requirements in the form so you can understand your initiative's progress over time.

### Why Use Compliance Forms?

Compliance Forms enable organizations to:

- Standardize documentation and metadata across critical Data Assets.
- Crowdsource compliance-related tasks to domain experts who are best equipped to provide accurate information.
- Scale governance initiatives efficiently while maintaining accuracy and accountability.

By leveraging Compliance Forms, organizations can ensure consistent metadata quality and foster collaboration between data experts and governance teams.

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## Next Steps

Now that you understand the basics of DataHub Compliance Forms, you're ready to [Create a Compliance Form](create-a-form.md).
