International Business Machines Corporation
APPLYING UNIFIED GOVERNANCE AND INTEGRATION PLATFORM TO SOCIAL MEDIA DATA

Abstract:

A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for applying a unified governance and integration platform to social media data. Data integration definitions for managing and protecting social media data are received. After receiving the data integration definitions for social media data, data integration externalization, governance catalog externalization or lineage externalization may be performed. For example, social media data may be extracted from a database system by a governance and integration unit ("unit") using the data integration definitions. The extracted social media data is then transformed and loaded to the social media data system via a connector linking the data from the unit to the social media data system. In another example, social media data is extracted from the social media data system by the unit, such as via the connector, using the data integration definitions and then transformed and loaded to the database system for analysis.