Patent ID: 8250099

Claim:
A method of designating authoritative sourcing of data in a data environment stored in at least one computer readable storage medium by creating a provisioning registry of the data, the provisioning registry comprising a registry data subject area, the method comprising: creating a provisioning strategy comprising: determining what information is of interest to potential data customers; determining what candidate systems of record and systems of collection are available for use; identifying limitations of interest for defining an operating scope for content of interest; receiving data of interest in the data environment, the data of interest comprising first data and second data corresponding to content stored in a content data subject area of the data environment; wherein the first data comprises description data defining the content based on a common business language stored in a common business language data subject area, and wherein the second data comprises a location identifier corresponding to the first data, the location identifier identifying a content location in the content data subject area of the data environment based on technical metadata stored in a metadata data subject area; and storing the first data and the second data in the registry data subject area; linking the first data with the second data; determining whether additional content of interest should be provisioned; in response to determining that additional content of interest should be provisioned, receiving corresponding additional data of interest; and in response to determining that no additional content of interest should be provisioned, reviewing the registry data subject area for errors; in response to identifying an error, correcting the error; and designating the provisioning registry is authoritative.