Aristotle Metadata Registry help documentation
  • Welcome to the Aristotle Metadata Knowledge Base
  • Finding and Viewing Metadata
    • Search
      • Using omnisearch to find registry content
      • Using advanced search filters to find registry content
        • Advanced Search: Help
    • Browsing the registry
    • Item page breakdown
    • Searching for Alternate Names in the Search Bar
    • Viewing related items and graphs
    • Compare different versions of a metadata item
    • Bulk actions
    • Downloading Content
    • Generating an API token
  • Personalisation
    • Navigation Choices on 'My Dashboard'
    • Managing your account
    • How to reset your password
    • Invite/Reset Password Link Is expired
    • How to set up multi factor authentication
    • Roles in the registry
    • Viewing your roles
    • Favouriting and tagging content
    • Notifications
  • Creating and Editing
    • My sandbox
    • Metadata Toolbox
    • Creating metadata items
      • Creating a data element or data element concept
      • Creating a metadata item with a single item creation wizard
    • Editing content
    • Cloning
    • Deleting metadata items
    • Restore Deleted Content
    • How to create and link quality statements
    • How to create and link glossary items
    • How to record data lineage
    • How to add alternative names to a metadata item
    • How to move individual and bulk metadata into a collection
    • Upload Metadata Using Bulk Import Feature
    • HTML Sanitization
    • Version Control - Supersede
    • Classifications
    • How to link Quality statement to an Indicator?
    • Dataset Grouping
    • Property Groups
      • How to Create Property Groups In Aristotle Registry?
    • Object Class Specialisation
      • How to create an object class specialisation
  • Collaborating within the registry
    • Aristotle Help
    • How to add content to workgroups
    • Reviews
    • Aristotle metadata community
    • How to create Collections and Sub Collections
    • Issues and Change Requests
      • Creating an issue label
      • Creating an issue
      • Viewing all issues
      • Proposing a change request
    • Metadata History: Comparing change logs
  • Registration Authorities
    • Creating and editing registration authorities
      • Validation Rules
        • Setting validation rules
          • Writing validation rules
    • Directly endorsing metadata items
    • Managing members of a registration authority
  • Administrator Tasks
    • Managing user accounts
    • Creating and maintaining a Stewardship Organization
    • Creating and managing workgroups
    • Managing and adding members to a workgroup
    • Add a user to Multiple Stewardship Organizations and Workgroups
    • Creating and editing namespaces and identifiers
      • Configuring manually triggered incremental identifiers
      • Configuring automatically triggered incremental identifiers
    • Deactivating a user account
    • View CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) Changes
    • View deleted items using query string
    • Contact Form
    • Custom Item Templates
      • Creating and editing custom item templates
        • Creating and editing sub-pages
      • Creating metadata items using custom item templates
    • Task Runner
      • Resolving issues with the search function using reindex
      • Populating help pages using load help
      • Resolving issues with item visibility by recaching visibility
      • Viewing all recent and historical task runner information
    • Aristotle Cloud Settings Editor
      • Adjusting visual settings
      • Adding and deleting header and footer links
      • Adjusting general registry settings
      • Adjusting metadata and functionality extensions
      • Making workgroup changes
      • Toggling summary statistics
      • Adjusting separator options
      • Adjusting download options
      • Adjusting translation options
      • Adjusting search options
      • Adjusting spam detection options
    • Registry Customisation in Cloud Settings
    • Custom Domains
      • Requesting a custom domain
      • Setting up a custom domain
  • Registry configuration
    • How to customise a registry
    • Enabling self sign-up
    • Adjusting privacy mode settings
    • Adding a custom login message
    • Homepage Editor
      • Creating a custom homepage using the HTML editor
      • Creating a custom homepage using the safe editor
    • Adding custom HTML to the header and footer of the registry
    • Simple customisation of Header, Body, and Footer
    • Content policies
    • Adding custom fields
      • Custom Field: Structured Data (Json) Type
  • Stewardship Tasks
    • Collection publication and permissions
    • Publishing metadata
    • Creating and managing registration authorities
    • How to add members to a stewardship organisation
    • How to create alternative name types
    • Metadata Report Builder
    • Reference Document Uploads to the Registry
    • Linking reference documents to metadata items
    • Remove Metadata from Workgroup
    • Organisation Records
      • Creating, managing and deleting an organisation record
      • Linking an organisation record to a metadata item
  • Subject Matter and Theory
    • What is metadata?
    • Data Dictionary
    • ISO/IEC 11179 data element representation
    • Bulk Import
    • Data Lineage
    • MAST(Metadata Analysis Standards Teamwork) Methodology and IDEAL Framework
      • Aristotle metadata user guides
  • Special features
    • Generating a Business Information Model using the Visualization Tool
    • Registering an app with the app store
    • Metadata Merger Tool
      • How to set up rules in the merger tool?
    • Federation
      • How do I federate content from another Aristotle Metadata Registry?
  • Geospatial Information
  • Checking for duplicates in the registry
  • Custom Field Bulk Uploader
    • Uploading structured data (JSON) custom fields
    • Bulk Importing Alternative names and Identifiers
  • System Users
  • Single Sign On
    • How to invite and update permissions of Aristotle Metadata staff on a client registry
  • Tablion - Data request portal
    • How to Extract Datasets from the Aristotle Metadata Registry into Tablion
  • Data Inventory View
  • Accessing the Aristotle Metadata Academy
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  • Data lineage in the Aristotle Metadata Registry:
  • Steps to create Data lineage for a Dataset
  • Steps to create Data lineage for a Data Element
  • Steps to create Data lineage for Distributions
  • Graphical Presentation of the Data Lineage Relationship
  1. Subject Matter and Theory

Data Lineage

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Data lineage reveals the life cycle of data; it seeks to depict the entire data flow from beginning to end. Data lineage is understanding, capturing and displaying data as it moves across different databases.

Data lineage has a huge impact on the data governance process. Data lineage is one of the best ways to manage risk and ensure data is handled following organisational policies and regulatory standards.

Data lineage in the Aristotle Metadata Registry:

The Aristotle Metadata Registry has a feature to graphically show different relationships between metadata. Data lineage helps users depict data flow from different data sources in the Registry.

Different Data lineage relationships that users can create in the Registry:

  • Dataset Relationship: Users can create relationships between different datasets showing the source of the current dataset.

  • Distribution Relationship: Users can create relationships between different distributions showing the source of the current distribution.

Steps to create Data lineage for a Dataset

  1. Data lineage is an in depth description of where data is coming from. To add a source to any Dataset, go to the Dataset to which the source Dataset will be added.

  2. From the Actions Tab, Click on "Open Item editor".

  1. Select the Components Tab.

  1. Click on Save Changes to add the source Dataset to the current Dataset.

Steps to create Data lineage for a Data Element

  1. Users can also add a source to the Distribution and Data Element. Go to the Distribution item page to add a source to the Distribution.

  2. Click on the Actions drop-down and select "Open item editor".

  1. Go to the Components tab and scroll down to "Data Element Path".

  1. Select a Data Element from the side panel to add the source.

  1. Scroll down to "Lineage Details". Users can add additional Lineage details from here.

  1. The user can search for the "Filter by distribution" drop-down to create a data lineage relationship at the Data Element level.

  1. Users can select the Data Element from the Distribution list under the "Select path name" drop-down.

Steps to create Data lineage for Distributions

  1. Go to the Distribution where the user wants to create a data lineage relationship. Click on the Actions drop-down and select "Open item editor".

  1. Go to the Components tab and scroll down to Provenance.

  1. Under the Source Distribution tab, select the Source Distribution(s) from the searchable list to create the data lineage relationship.

  1. Select Save Changes to create the relationship.

Graphical Presentation of the Data Lineage Relationship

  1. Go to the metadata item page where the user wants to graphically view the data lineage relationship.

  2. Select the Graphs tab on the metadata item page.

  1. Click on "Data Lineage" in the Graphs Tab.

  1. Users can view different data lineage relationships under the "Data Lineage" section.

  • Blue containers: The blue containers in this visualisation represent the Datasets in the Registry. Users can click the Distributions (in green) to view Data Elements in the Distribution.

  • Users can view the data lineage relationship at different levels under the graphs tab:

    • Relationship at Dataset Level: The user can evaluate the data lineage relationship at the Dataset level (represented by the direction of blue arrows in the Registry).

    • Relationship at the Distribution level: The user can evaluate the data lineage relationship at the Distribution level (represented by the direction of green arrows in the Registry).

    • Relationship at the Data Element level: The user can evaluate the data lineage relationship at the Data Element level (represented by the direction of grey arrows in the registry).

Scroll Down to . Under the Source Datasets tab, the user can link the source Dataset to the current Dataset.

Data Lineage Process (Learning Center. (n.d.). What is Data Lineage | Examples of Tools and Techniques | Imperva. [online] Available at: https://www.imperva.com/learn/data-security/data-lineage/.)