Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for incorporating metadata extensions of various metadata formats into a metadata mapping or graphing function. Extensions for various formats are separately defined with a predetermined syntax. When a metadata object is received, it is scanned to determine whether any extensions are present. When such an extension is detected, the parser is loaded with an extension parsing plugin corresponding to the format of the metadata object. That plugin retrieves extension definitions from a repository in order to accurately parse the extension information of the metadata object. The metadata object and its extensions can then be parsed and graphed accordingly.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing an architecture to support a semantic validation technique. The system includes a governance console that carries out data management functionalities to support the validation. Such functionalities include generating, storing and publishing validation profiles that are used by a validation service for validating an asset, a validation reporter that receives and stores validation reports and performs notification functions to notify relevant individuals of the validation results, as well as a profile runner and associations manager that directly support the validation service.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for incorporating metadata extensions of various metadata formats into a metadata mapping or graphing function. Extensions for various formats are separately defined with a predetermined syntax. When a metadata object is received, it is scanned to determine whether any extensions are present. When such an extension is detected, the parser is loaded with an extension parsing plugin corresponding to the format of the metadata object. That plugin retrieves extension definitions from a repository in order to accurately parse the extension information of the metadata object. The metadata object and its extensions can then be parsed and graphed accordingly.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for validating resources within an IT system using a syntax agnostic validation mechanism. Metadata objects describing a resource may be generated by multiple processes in the IT system and be of different metadata formats. These metadata objects may be parsed into a unified semantic graph over which validation rules may be applied. The semantic graph and a validation ruleset comprising one or more validation rules may be input into a validation engine. The validation engine may interpret the validation into logical assertions then apply them over the semantic graph. The validation engine may then generate a validation report indicating whether the graph is conformant. The validation report may include information about any validation failures that may have occurred and may be displayed to a user on a client device via a graphical user interface.