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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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golden record

/ˈɡoʊl.dən ˈrɛk.ərd/ - n.

1 [colloq.] The one true version of the customer, assembled from five wrong ones by a rule no one in the room can recite.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The single best, reconciled version of an entity assembled from multiple sources according to defined survivorship rules.

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See also
  • entity resolutionDeciding whether these four customers are one customer, a question the org would rather bill four times than answer once.
  • master dataThe handful of nouns the entire company depends on and no single function will admit it owns.
  • single source of truthTerm struck pending the definitions of ownership, metric, and certification it depends on; without them the source is single but the truth is plural.
  • survivorshipThe logic that picks which of three addresses is real, optimized so the survivor is always the one entered most recently and least correctly.