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title: Semantic Mapping
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# Semantic Mapping

OpenTelemetry uses semantic conventions to standardize names for different types of telemetry data, ensuring consistency across systems.

The following documentation describes how OpenTelemetry and Datadog conventions map to one another.

- [Resource Attribute Mapping](https://docs.datadoghq.com/opentelemetry/mapping/semantic_mapping.md)
- [Metrics Mapping](https://docs.datadoghq.com/opentelemetry/mapping/metrics_mapping.md)
- [Infrastructure Host Mapping](https://docs.datadoghq.com/opentelemetry/mapping/host_metadata.md)
- [Hostname Mapping](https://docs.datadoghq.com/opentelemetry/mapping/hostname.md)
- [Service-entry Spans Mapping](https://docs.datadoghq.com/opentelemetry/mapping/service_entry_spans.md)

## Further reading{% #further-reading %}

- [Correlate Data](https://docs.datadoghq.com/opentelemetry/correlate.md)