📄️ Data Catalog
The data catalog represents the full set of configuration for getting data into LinXmart for linkage.
📄️ Data Providers
Data Providers are the organisations/people who have agreed to provide data to LinXmart. All data received by the system must be associated with (i.e. belong to) a Data Provider. Event Types and Datasources both exist within the context of a Data Provider.
📄️ Event Types
An event type is a data collection which is being provided by a Data Provider. As with Data Providers, Event Types are created, edited and deleted through the Web Interface. Event types belong to a data provider – they cannot be created separately from them. A Data Provider may provide any number of Event Types. For instance, a health department could provide hospital admission, emergency department presentation or cancer registry event types.
🗃️ Data Sources
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📄️ Import Formats
The Import Format provides a mapping between source data and the linkage fields used to match data in the system. While a Data Source determines how data is ingested into the system, the Import Format provides the details on the source schema.
📄️ Envelopes
At its simplest, a LinXmart Envelope is a dataset paired with a descriptor that tells LinXmart what to do with it. These Envelopes exist as standard zip files containing one or more data files, other metdata files and a manifest file that describes what each file is for. This could be to load data for linkage, extract linkage keys for specified source records, or even modify the groupings of records.
📄️ Linkage Projects
A Linkage Project is a collection of Event Types that will be linked to each other. Event types can be in more than one Linkage Project. Linkage Projects offer a large amount of flexibility and can handle a number of common linkage scenarios, including:
📄️ Workflows
Workflows are long running processes, managed by the system, and represent the orchestration of a specific set of activities. These activities can include the loading of data for linkages and the extraction of linkage results.