Colt: Concept Lineage Tool for Data Flow Metadata Capture and Analysis
Summary: Colt is a concept lineage tool for capturing and exploring data-flow metadata across enterprise networks. It uniquely supports business-contextualized lineage (concept, business, product), interactive origin tracing, and scalable discovery across thousands of systems and flows. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Kareem S. Aggour (General Electric)
- 2. Jenny Weisenberg Williams (General Electric)
- 3. Justin McHugh (General Electric)
- 4. Vijay S. Kumar (General Electric)
BibTeX Citation
@article{aggour_vldb17,
title = {{Colt: Concept Lineage Tool for Data Flow Metadata Capture and Analysis}},
author = {Aggour, Kareem S. and Williams, Jenny Weisenberg and McHugh, Justin and Kumar, Vijay S.},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '17},
volume = {10},
number = {12},
pages = {1790--1803},
doi = {10.14778/3137765.3137774},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3137765.3137774},
year = {2017}
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