Abstract: A computer-implemented method for the placing of information assets, including: discovering information about a new or changed information asset; determining one or more characteristics of an ideal location for the information asset; determining one or more characteristics of one or more locations in an information technology environment; determining the compatibility of the information asset with the location(s) by comparing the characteristic(s) of the ideal location to the characteristic(s) of the actual location(s); reporting the compatibility to a user; and optionally suggesting alternative placement locations. The locations may be part of one or more locational schemas.

Abstract: A user interface is generated that displays a set of selectable terms from a glossary of business terms and is configured to generate a business metadata query that identifies a forum with member profiles. A data movement executable is generated that identifies the forum and an analytical processing environment. The data movement executable is deployed and data is moved from the forum into the analytical processing environment. Analytics are performed on the data from the forum. Metadata is identified from the analytics. The glossary of business terms is updated using the metadata from the analytics.

Abstract: A user interface is generated that displays a set of selectable terms from a glossary of business terms and is configured to generate a business metadata query that identifies a forum with member profiles. A data movement executable is generated that identifies the forum and an analytical processing environment. The data movement executable is deployed and data is moved from the forum into the analytical processing environment. Analytics are performed on the data from the forum. Metadata is identified from the analytics. The glossary of business terms is updated using the metadata from the analytics.

Abstract: A method, computer program product, and system for information governance crowd sourcing by, responsive to receiving a data quality exception identifying one or more data quality errors in a data store, identifying a performance level required to correct the data quality errors, selecting, from a crowd hierarchy, a first one or more crowds meeting the defined performance level, wherein the crowd hierarchy ranks the performance of one or more crowds, and routing, by operation of one or more computer processors, the one or more data quality errors to the selected crowds for correction.

Abstract: Method, system, and computer program product to improve a coverage of a plurality of classifications between a plurality of terms in a glossary and a set of values in a reference data management system, by identifying a first classification, of the plurality of classifications in the glossary, between a first term in the glossary and a first set of values in the reference data management system, detecting a relationship between the first set of values and a second set of values in the reference data management system, and upon determining that a relevance score for a relevant value from the second set of values exceeds a predefined threshold, identifying the relevant value to be classified with the term in the glossary, wherein the glossary is configured to create a second classification between the first term and the relevant value.

Abstract: Ontologies are used to comprehend regular expressions, by selecting, based on a context relating to a domain of a regular expression, an ontology and an assertion base, parsing the regular expression to identify at least one fragment of the regular expression, identifying one or more assertions in the assertion base corresponding to one of the identified fragments, identifying, for each identified assertion, an associated node in the ontology, and returning, based on the associated nodes, a concept in the ontology as representing the associated fragment of the regular expression.

Abstract: Ontologies are used to comprehend regular expressions, by selecting, based on a context relating to a domain of a regular expression, an ontology and an assertion base, parsing the regular expression to identify at least one fragment of the regular expression, identifying one or more assertions in the assertion base corresponding to one of the identified fragments, identifying, for each identified assertion, an associated node in the ontology, and returning, based on the associated nodes, a concept in the ontology as representing the associated fragment of the regular expression.

Abstract: Method and system are provided for refactoring of databases to include soft type information. The method may include: carrying out data profiling of soft type data to generate an attribute list with mapping suggestions to a hardened database structure; generating a data model definition and extract, transform, and load logic for transforming the soft type data based on the attribute list and mapping suggestions; executing the data model definition to create a new or modified database structure; moving data from an existing database structure to the new or modified database structure; and regenerating a services interface for access to the data.

Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for controlling the distribution of data. Data stored in a datastore is filtered according to a data release policy to generate filtered data. A data release policy agreement, corresponding to the data release policy, is generated. The filtered data and the data release policy agreement are then provided to an information consumer. The data release policy agreement is then used to enforce the data release policy.

Abstract: System, method, and computer program product to exploit trust level lifecycle events for master data to publish security events updating identity management, assigning, in a master data management (MDM) system, an initial trust level, to a first individual based on a level of association of the first individual with an entity owning the MDM system, the initial trust level corresponding to access rights in the MDM system, collecting data about the first individual from one or more social networking sites, computing a trust score for the first individual based on data pertaining to the first individual from the MDM system and the collected data, and updating the trust level for the first individual based on the trust score.

Abstract: A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for categorization of assets. The mechanism receives attribute values for a set of information technology (IT) assets. The mechanism performs k-means clustering analysis to cluster together IT assets with similar attributes to form a set of asset clusters. The mechanism uses a knowledge representation associated with the set of IT assets to assign the IT assets into a set of tentative clusters. The mechanism categorizes the set of IT assets into categories based on a combination of the set of asset clusters and the set of tentative clusters.

Abstract: Provided are to a computer program product, system, and method for determining linkage metadata of content of a target document to source documents.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for identifying transcoding tables in an Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) process, by identifying, by operation of one or more computer processors, records passing through an operator configured to replace values in the records with values from at least one table linked to the operator before being sent to an output table, wherein the operator specifies an operation for extracting, transforming, or loading data stored in one or more source systems into storage by a target system, and evaluating at least a first table linked to the operator to determine whether the first table is a transcoding table by assigning a score to the first table, wherein the score is indicative of the likelihood that the first table is a transcoding table, wherein a transcoding table is used to harmonize values from a plurality of tables in the one or more source systems to a table in the target.

Abstract: Provided are techniques for secure matching supporting fuzzy data. A first bloom filter for a first data element is retrieved, wherein each of the characters in the data element has been encrypted with a beginning offset position of the character and encrypted with an end offset position of the character to produce two encrypted values that are added to the first bloom filter. A second bloom filter for a second data element is retrieved. The first bloom filter and the second bloom filter are compared to determine whether there is a match between the first data element and the second data element.

Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system analyzes data in response to detecting occurrence of an event, and includes a computer system including at least one processor. The system maps fields between the data and a fingerprint definition identifying relevant fields of the data to produce a fingerprint for the data. The data is deleted after occurrence of the event. The produced fingerprint is stored in a data repository, and retrieved in response to detection of the event occurrence after the data has been deleted. The system analyzes the retrieved fingerprint to evaluate an impact of the event on corresponding deleted data. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for analyzing data in response to detecting occurrence of an event in substantially the same manner described above.

Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system analyzes data in response to detecting occurrence of an event, and includes a computer system including at least one processor. The system maps fields between the data and a fingerprint definition identifying relevant fields of the data to produce a fingerprint for the data. The data is deleted after occurrence of the event. The produced fingerprint is stored in a data repository, and retrieved in response to detection of the event occurrence after the data has been deleted. The system analyzes the retrieved fingerprint to evaluate an impact of the event on corresponding deleted data. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for analyzing data in response to detecting occurrence of an event in substantially the same manner described above.

Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for determining relative connectedness from temporal data. A user iterates through a list of items implemented on a mobile device. As each item on the list is located it is marked to generate a corresponding timestamp. The timestamps are then used to generate a timestamped list, which in turn is processed to determine the amount of elapsed time between each item on the list being located. The timestamped list data is then processed to generate relative connectedness data, which in turn is processed to generate a relative connectedness graph. The relative connectedness graph is then processed to assign coordinates to each item on the list. In turn, the coordinates are used to generate a map of the items.

Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for determining relative connectedness from temporal data. A user iterates through a list of items implemented on a mobile device. As each item on the list is located it is marked to generate a corresponding timestamp. The timestamps are then used to generate a timestamped list, which in turn is processed to determine the amount of elapsed time between each item on the list being located. The timestamped list data is then processed to generate relative connectedness data, which in turn is processed to generate a relative connectedness graph. The relative connectedness graph is then processed to assign coordinates to each item on the list. In turn, the coordinates are used to generate a map of the items.

Abstract: A system maps data within a data source to a target data model, and comprises a computer system including at least one processor. The system determines an identifier for each data object of the data source based on the data within that data object, wherein the identifier indicates for that data object a corresponding concept within a domain ontological representation of a data model of the data source. The determined identifiers for the data objects of the data source are compared to the target data model to determine mappings between the data objects of the data source and the target data model. Data objects from the data source are extracted for the target data model in accordance with the mappings. Present invention embodiments further include a method and computer program product for mapping data within a data source to a target data model.

Abstract: Provided are techniques for providing security in a computing system with identity mediation policies that are enterprise service bus (EBS) independent. A mediator component performs service-level operation such as message brokering, identity mediation, and transformation to enhance interoperability among service consumers and service providers. A mediator component may also delegate identity related operations to a token service of handler. Identity mediation may include such operations as identity determination, or “identification,” authentication, authorization, identity transformation and security audit.