Before a bond presentation, leadership asks which source systems feed the "water main breaks" KPI. Which metadata practice answers that origin question?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Lineage is the "ingredients and recipe" label for a metric. When someone asks where the water-main-breaks number came from, you follow the lineage—not the font size on the slide.
Full Explanation
Lineage metadata traces origins, transformations, and downstream dependencies for fields and metrics. For critical KPIs, lineage supports trust, impact analysis, and auditability by showing which sources and jobs contribute to the reported value. Leaders asking which systems feed a water-main-breaks KPI need that origin map, not presentation tweaks. Maintaining lineage for key metrics is a core metadata-management practice.