CLOSED-LOOP UNIFIED METADATA ARCHITECTURE WITH UNIVERSAL METADATA REPOSITORY

A computer-implemented method including in a network connected hardware system identifying a pre-defined workflow for analysis, selecting data sources that provide input data to the pre-defined workflow, with communication circuitry retrieving source metadata from the data sources that characterizes the input data to the pre-defined workflow, providing the source metadata to repository processing circuitry, and with the repository processing circuitry integrating the source metadata into a universal metadata repository, performing data analytics on the source metadata driven by the universal metadata repository, wherein said performing data analytics includes performing static data analysis to update a data lineage structure for the source metadata, identifying gaps in the source metadata based on said static data analysis, and in response to identifying gaps in the source metadata, discovering one or more additional data sources and extracting additional metadata from the one or more additional data sources to update the universal metadata repository, and executing a feedback loop responsive to the data analytics to deliver a source metadata feedback message to at least one of the data sources. M, 0 -c o :l C4 o ca. a) 0) - 0 C) . ) 5/ 0 101- 0 1 I cni CC,4 0 Q) C/) U ) -w0 - M0 w0 a, WU U) aWU)s a uJ )