Method and system for encapsulating and storing information from multiple disparate data sources

A method of encapsulating multiple different data records having an unstructured or structured format, the data records contained in files stored across multiple databases, at least two databases of which have dissimilar structures, the method comprising:

• ingested
• ingesting files containing the data records from the databases, and for each file,
• deconstructing one or more data records contained in the file into elemental parts having the same structure, the elemental parts representing encapsulated data, and
• storing the elemental parts in a single data store, the stored elemental parts adapted to be freely indexed and searchable irrespective of the original unstructured or structured format of the elemental parts' underlying data record, and irrespective of the database containing the file from which the underlying data record was ingested.

A computer system adapted to encapsulate digital data records in multiple, differently structured and unstructured formats accessible from multiple data storage locations, comprising:

• an ingest client adapted to ingest a plurality of the digital data records from the multiple data storage locations,
• a server node adapted to iterate object-based programming functions therein that:
• separate each ingested data record into a plurality of tuples,
• split out a data part and a fieldname part from each tuple,
• create a pointer by combining the fieldname part, a record identifier of the data record, and a database identifier of the storage location where the data record was stored, and
• append the created pointer to the data part to form a pointer pair which represents encapsulated data, each formed pointer pair having the same structure, and
• store the formed pointer pairs in a single data store of the server node, and
• a response client adapted to, upon a user query to the system, de-encapsulate selected pointer pairs in the data store based on the query store, for display and analysis by the user of the original, underlying ingested digital data records associated with the pointer pairs.