A property is a piece of configuration you can set, which guides the process of normalizing your data.

Properties help your Bunker understand your dataset's original schema.

Properties always belong to categories. The Global Schema defines the properties available for each category.

For example, you might have several original columns - such as Street, Town and Country - which together are categorized as an Address. In most countries, addresses include a postal code (or zip code), which unambiguously identifies the street.

So the Address category comes with a Postal Code property, which tells your Bunker which of the original columns contains the code. When you use your Bunker to assign a group of columns to the Address category, you can also configure that property.