InfoLibrarian Studio™ Metadata Management & Data Stewardship

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The Ultimate Metadata Management & Data Stewardship Tool

InfoLibrarian Studio™ Suite is a special package offered and bundled with all the modules you need to begin managing your metadata today. InfoLibrarian Studio™ is the stewardship tool suite used in conjunction with InfoLibrarian Server™ software.

InfoLibrarian Studio™ tools are included in all version of our products. InfoLibrarian Studio™ is bundled with standard adapters. The repository can be deployed to any ANSI SQL compliant ODBC/JDBC database.

Data Steward Power Feature

The InfoLibrarian Studio Metadata Modeler™ is a visual designer that empowers data stewards to model and customize objects and properties, assign specific UI editors, and enable seamless user interfaces and automatic UI contributor form creation. This enhances collaboration between knowledge workers who use the InfoLibrarian Studio or the web-based InfoLibrarian Portal™ Data Catalog to contribute tribal knowledge or endorse data sets with governance or data quality indicators. Additionally, pre-modeled custom object properties can be programmatically mapped for API metadata ingestion.

Key Capabilties

Data Governance | Metadata Management | Data Catalog | Business Glossary | Data Lineage | Semantic Metadata Modeling | Data Stewardhsip

InfoLibrarian Studio™

The InfoLibrarian Studio™ is a Windows based desktop metadata management and stewardship tool.

Tool Purpose

The InfoLibrarian Studio™ is the main management console for the product. The InfoLibrarian Studio™ runs on Windows 10+ and Server 2012-2022 (x64) platforms. The InfoLibrarian Studio™ is used primarily by information stewards, taxonomist or systems documentors to import, create, enrich and maintain metadata and documentation. The InfoLibrarian Studio™ is bundled with all versions of the product.

Features at a Glance

Setup categorizers and classify metadata.
Manage and enrich metadata catalogs.
Connect to different InfoLibrarian™ metadata repositories.
Manage business metadata and business glossaries.
Manage business rules.
Build and manage subject areas, categories, and enterprise data mappings.
Add, remove, and modify custom object types with the Object Modeler.
Manage taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, valid value lists, tags, and custom metadata objects.
Manage and categorize documentation links to appear in the portal.
Manage adapters configurations, crawling, integration, portal settings, log settings, and repository settings.
View and navigate scanning ingest logs.
Run adapters wizards interactively to quickly ingest metadata.
Enrich metadata with custom fields.
Design and build custome metamodels and setup ingestion rules with a full featured rules engine.
Endorsement of datasets.

Auto Scanner Meta-Model Lineage Mapping

InfoLibrarian Auto Scanner™ & CLI (Command Line Interface)

Auto Rescan™ utility is a part of our server based products, but now we've included it in the InfoLibrarian Studio™. The Auto Scanner™ allows for command-line and/or scheduling of scans for automation. The auto scanner also tracks changes in history automatically. In our server products the InfoLibrarian Auto Scanner™ is a powerful multi-threaded/scalable server component of the product. On the desktop studio, the InfoLibrarian Auto Scanner™ runs in one process. The big difference being the total time it takes to perform full rescans. If you have a repository approaching several millions of objects, the server version is recommended. The auto-scanner can also be run in GUI mode.

Tool Purpose

The Auto-Scanner™ refreshes and maintains historical changes as they occur over time. This catalogs and safeguards the core knowledge about your environment, permanently! Immediate value from the technical metadata provides your technical personnel with reliable and accurate knowledge to help them more effectively manage and maintain your complex IT systems and interrelated processes. The foundation is built.

Features At A Glance
- Re-scanning single catalogs.
- Re-scan all catalogs with rescan flag set.
- Creates snapshots and captures deltas.
- Age-off settings and steps.
- Settings to handle deletions in source.
- GUI Interface.
- Command Line mode.
- Full logging.
- Calculates new, changed and deleted objects and properties.
- Reduce project analysis time.
- Diagnose code deployment and configuration problems.
- Manage physical assets.
- Provide reports for governance and compliance auditing.

InfoLibrarian™ Meta-Model Support

The InfoLibrarian Repository Designer™
The Object Modeler allows you to identify anything that you want documented and define it. Additionally you can organize it the way you want. Think of it as having the ability to define templates for the metadata you want to manage in your environment. Build your own meta-model with no code or repository modifications. For example, you can create objects that represent:
- Business Glossaries.
- Concepts and Terms.
- Hierarchies.
- Taxonomies.
- Valid value lists.
- Policies for data governance.
- Data quality metrics.
- Hardware inventory.
- Business processes.
- Key performance indicators.
- Technical processes in business terms.
- Applications and components.
- Subject Areas and Categories (Taxonomy).
- Define new objects for custom scans loaders and templates.
- Create unlimited custom properties.
- Define complex objects.
One use case would be to create an object and its properties in the Repository Designer™, then use the InfoLibrarian™ Spreadsheet or Database Adapter to populate synchronize with the repository, giving you the power to essentially build your own custom meta-model.

Stitching and Mapping Lineage Across Tools

InfoLibrarian™ enables you to easily capture, define and map your business metadata, automatically displaying and categorizing it in the portal with terminology that is already familiar to your users. , you can define or import business terms and rules from various other tools.

With a few clicks, business terms can be mapped to technical Metadata using the terms mapping tool.

You can also define subject areas and taxonomies, map those to the business terms that will be auto-generated in the portal.

InfoLibrarian Drag and Drop Mappings and Mapping Wizards

Connect the dots between data, process, applications and code. The result facilitates visual lineage via the portal.

Automated Stitching and Mapping

Using our Adapter SDK you can define custom mappings to facilitate automation of the mapping process for large data sets. We also provide professional servies to assist your custom development effort.

Features At A Glance
- Stitch metadata across tools and define your custom workflow between incompatible tools.
- Map business terms to technical metadata.
- Map business terms to other terms.
- Map business terms to categories to create business taxonomies.