Definitions
In plain terms
It lets a learner or auditor trace a displayed value back through source records, code versions, parameters, and corrections.
Technical
Useful lineage captures source identity and version, transformations, inputs and outputs, execution time, responsible agent or system, configuration, and derivation links.
Scope
A source URL alone is not complete lineage, and lineage quality depends on retained granularity.
Examples
- A governed dataset records data lineage explicitly and preserves the source context needed to interpret it.
Common misconceptions
- Data Lineage does not have one universal meaning or policy without its declared source, scope, and data contract.
Concept relationships
Where this concept is used
- ImportantDuplicate-Trade ResolverD01-F02-A05
- ImportantPrice-Source Consensus CheckD01-F04-A03
- ImportantSchema-Drift Detector: Catch Structural and Semantic Contract ChangesD01-F04-A04
- ImportantPoint-in-Time Availability GuardD01-F04-A05
- ImportantPermanent Security Identifier Mapping: Scoped, Effective-Dated CrosswalksD02-F03-A01
- ImportantTicker-Change Chain ResolutionD02-F03-A02
- ImportantShare-Class Relationship Mapping: Same Issuer Does Not Mean Same SecurityD02-F03-A03
- ImportantDelisting Return Reconstruction: Separate Observed Proceeds from EstimatesD02-F03-A05
- ImportantHistorical Constituent Reconstruction: Rebuild the Roster Without Looking AheadD02-F04-A01
- ImportantSurvivorship-Bias Guard: Keep Historical Failures in the TestD02-F04-A02
- ImportantIPO Availability Timestamping: Separate Listing Events from Research KnowledgeD02-F04-A03
- ImportantFiling-Revision VersioningD02-F04-A04
Evidence and governance
- PROV-O: The PROV Ontology World Wide Web Consortium · official standard
Supports: preferred label, short definition, technical definition
Limits: It supplies a provenance vocabulary, not a financial-market lineage schema or retention policy.
- Fintech Builder Glossary Definition Contract The Fintech Builder · internal governed contract
Supports: variant distinction
Limits: Defines governed platform behavior rather than claiming these policies are universally prescribed by external McClellan methodology.
- Reviewed by
- fintech-builder-owner-approved
- Last reviewed
- 2026-07-26
- Next review
- 2027-07-26
- Record status
- published