Harmonizing Your Data

Harmonization is the process of creating a canonical model of your data using only the parts you need and leaving the rest as-is. Harmonization can be as simple as keeping the data as-is or as involved as you want to make it.

The following might be performed as part of the harmonize step:

• Standardize dates and other fields
• Enrich data with additional information
• Extract important data into indexes for faster searching
• Leverage semantic triples to enrich your data
• Denormalize multiple data sources into one document

While not all of the above are explicitly harmonization tasks, they typically happen during this phase.

Create a Harmonize Flow

There are several ways to create and run Harmonize flows.

• QuickStart - A user interface for developing with DHF. Use QuickStart if you want to get started with DHF quickly. (QuickStart is not supported for production use.)
• Gradle Plugin - The Gradle plugin allows you to interact with the DHF from the command line.
• Java Library - A library for running harmonize flows from Java programs.
• REST - MarkLogic exposes RESTful APIs for harmonizing via HTTP REST calls. Use the REST API if you need to harmonize data from a non-Java application.