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I am looking to create a data lineage diagram showing the source and movement of some of our data across different systems and processes and found that there is not one data lineage diagram that looks the same. I just wanted to know if there is best practice out there? There looks like there is a lack of information out there on it too so maybe there is a more popular name it goes by?

Thanks

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  • Maybe a UML Activity diagram would fit best? – pawamoy Apr 05 '18 at 11:12
  • "Data lineage" seems to be the popular name lately, so probably not a bad search term. It's rather that this field is relatively new so not much has been published so far. I'm not aware of any standard, every vendor has their own way. – Jiri Tousek Apr 05 '18 at 14:46

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There is no real one standard for Dataflow Lineage diagrams. There are few tools in the market for presenting Lineage. You can also find open source solutions which centralize and organize metadata and have many out-of-the-box functionalities like Lineage and Data Catalog. Graph databases also offer solutions for creating Lineage (nodes and relationships). Enjoy!

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