METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING A SET OF INTEGRATED DATA SYSTEMS

摘要

A method, an apparatus, and a system for configuring, designing, and/or implementing integrated data modeling methods for configuring interoperability between multiple data system based upon compliance with data integration standards.

主权项

1. A method comprising
using a computer processor to access a first repository of metadata from a plurality of repositories of metadata stored in a computer memory; using a computer processor to store a first entity-relationship diagram in the first repository of metadata; wherein the first entity-relationship diagram includes a plurality of data entities and a plurality of data entity relationships stored in the computer memory, such that each of the plurality of data entity relationships of the first entity-relationship diagram links one of the plurality of data entities of the first entity-relationship diagram with only one of the plurality of data entities of the first entity-relationship diagram within the first entity-relationship diagram; using a computer processor to store a first copy of a first master reference data standard entity in the first entity-relationship diagram, such that the step of storing the first copy of the first master reference data standard entity in the first entity-relationship diagram makes the first entity-relationship diagram a first integrated entity-relationship diagram of a plurality of integrated entity-relationship diagrams; wherein the first master reference data standard entity includes a first unique key configured to ensure that each instance of a plurality of instances of the first master reference data standard entity is a unique instance and that the plurality of instances of the first master reference data standard entity are all unique instances of the first master reference data standard entity; wherein the first master reference data standard entity is a type of data entity configured to integrate the first entity-relationship diagram with one or more of the other integrated entity-relationship diagrams of the plurality of integrated entity-relationship diagrams; wherein each of the plurality of integrated entity-relationship diagrams includes a master reference data standard entity of a plurality of master reference data standard entities, wherein the plurality of master reference data standard entities includes the first master reference data standard entity; wherein more than one of the plurality of integrated entity-relationship diagrams includes a copy of the first master reference data standard entity such that there are a plurality of copies of the first master reference data standard entities; wherein the first unique key of the first master reference data standard entity is configured to form a first common entity relationship with the first unique key of any copy of the first master reference data standard entity in any entity-relationship diagram; wherein a common entity relationship is a peer-to-peer type of relationship; wherein each of the plurality of integrated entity-relationship diagrams is linked to one or more other integrated entity-relationship diagrams of the plurality of integrated entity-relationship diagrams by one or more common entity relationships of a plurality of common entity relationships, such that each common entity relationship of the plurality of common entity relationships links an integrated entity-relationship diagram of the plurality of integrated entity-relationship diagrams to any other integrated entity-relationship diagram of the plurality of integrated entity-relationship diagrams, if both that integrated entity-relationship diagram and any other integrated entity-relationship diagram contains a copy of the same master reference data standard entity of the plurality of master reference data standard entities.