Forge Capsule

Enterprise Data Governance: Lineage, Provenance, and Audit Trails

Data lineage: track data origin, transformations, destinations. NIST definition: provenance = documentation of inputs, entities, systems, activities involved in data production. OpenLineage standard: Marquez server, Airflow/Spark integrations. Enterprise requirements: GDPR Art. 30 records of processing, SOX audit trails, HIPAA access logs. Tools: Apache Atlas, Collibra, Alation, dbt lineage graphs. Immutable audit logs: append-only stores, cryptographic hashing (Merkle trees). Forge provenance: capsule version history, edge creation logs, governance vote records — satisfies enterprise audit requirements.