Bring Federated Data Under YOUnite Control

Entities in the systems attached to the adaptors need to be linked to YOUnite data records. The process is called linking entities to MDM or "linking". It is assumed that an organization has already reviewed the YOUnite Implementation Overview and have completed the steps up to "Bring Federated Data Under YOUnite Control". These steps include but are limited to:

• Define data domains - very important for this process are understanding the uniqueness rules
• Develop adaptors
• Establish key players in the DGO such as the DGS and the individual zone data stewards.

This process is quite extensive and thus needs to be planned out well:

For a each domain being linked:

1. Create a master list of entities that need to be mapped
   1. Identify all systems that have adaptors that contain entities of this domain type
   2. Typically, one system has the entire set of entities but the entire set can be a composite of two or more systems
   3. Ensure that all entities in all systems meet the uniqnuess rules
      1. This may require cleaning data in the systems to ensure that all entities are unqiue
   4. Create the list with all of the uniqueness rule values
   5. Create an entity list for each adaptor 
2. Once the master list is established, POST /drs for each
   1. this creates an entity
3. For each adaptor, link
4. Validate