A clerk of courts wants to confirm that a gold docket summary depends on silver hearings and bronze CMS extracts. What should they examine?

Lineage dependencies among the medallion tables in Catalog Explorer are what a clerk of courts should examine to confirm that a gold docket summary depends on silver hearings and bronze CMS extracts. Unity Catalog lineage visualizes upstream/downstream relationships so civic stewards can validate that the published gold product actually rests on the expected silver and bronze securables.

Examining downstream lineage from the gold docket summary table in Catalog Explorer fails by direction because it shows downstream consumers of the gold summary, not the upstream silver hearings and bronze CMS extracts it was derived from. Examining upstream lineage from the silver hearings table in Catalog Explorer fails by starting point because it shows what feeds silver, not what feeds the gold docket summary, so it cannot confirm the gold's dependence on silver hearings and bronze CMS extracts. Examining upstream lineage from the bronze CMS extracts table in Catalog Explorer fails by starting point because it shows what feeds bronze, not what feeds the gold docket summary, so it cannot confirm the gold's dependence on silver hearings and bronze CMS extracts.

Exam caveat: Lineage shows dependencies among governed objects when pipelines register that lineage; it is not proven by upstream lineage from the silver hearings table alone or by downstream lineage from the gold docket summary table. Owner/history metadata can corroborate who changed an object but still does not replace the dependency graph among bronze, silver, and gold docket tables. If CMS extracts land outside UC-managed paths, lineage gaps may appear and should be treated as a governance defect.

Operational check: Open the gold docket summary in Catalog Explorer, follow lineage to silver hearings and bronze CMS extracts, confirm the edges match the courts medallion design, and investigate any unexpected feeders before signing off statutory docket publications.