diff --git a/cisticola/base.py b/cisticola/base.py
index 7d03abe..9aaf5a6 100644
--- a/cisticola/base.py
+++ b/cisticola/base.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from datetime import datetime
 from sqlalchemy.orm import registry
-from sqlalchemy import Table, Column, Integer, String, DateTime
+from sqlalchemy import Table, Column, Integer, String, DateTime, ForeignKey
 
 mapper_registry = registry()
 
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ class ScraperResult:
     """A minimally processed result from a scraper"""
     scraper: str
     platform: str
-    channel: str
+    channel: int
     platform_id: str
     date: datetime
     raw_data: str
@@ -19,10 +19,10 @@ class ScraperResult:
 
 
 raw_data_table = Table('raw_data', mapper_registry.metadata,
-                       Column('id', Integer, primary_key=True),
+                       Column('id', Integer, primary_key=True, autoincrement=True),
                        Column('scraper', String),
                        Column('platform', String),
-                       Column('channel', String),
+                       Column('channel', Integer),
                        Column('platform_id', String),
                        Column('date', DateTime),
                        Column('raw_data', String),
@@ -45,3 +45,37 @@ class Channel:
     public: bool
     chat: bool
     notes: str
+
+
+@dataclass
+class TransformedResult:
+    """An object with fields for columns in the analysis table"""
+    raw_id: int
+    scraper: str
+    transformer: str
+    platform: str
+    channel: str
+    date: datetime
+    date_archived: datetime
+    url: str
+    content: str
+    author_id: str
+    author_username: str
+
+
+analysis_table = Table('analysis', mapper_registry.metadata,
+                       Column('id', Integer, primary_key=True, autoincrement=True),
+                       Column('raw_id', Integer, ForeignKey('raw_data.id')),
+                       Column('scraper', String),
+                       Column('transformer', String),
+                       Column('platform', String),
+                       Column('channel', String),
+                       Column('date', DateTime),
+                       Column('date_archived', DateTime),
+                       Column('url', String),
+                       Column('content', String),
+                       Column('author_id', String),
+                       Column('author_username', String)
+                       )
+
+mapper_registry.map_imperatively(TransformedResult, analysis_table)
diff --git a/cisticola/transformer/__init__.py b/cisticola/transformer/__init__.py
index fcda068..1512950 100644
--- a/cisticola/transformer/__init__.py
+++ b/cisticola/transformer/__init__.py
@@ -1,34 +1,16 @@
-@dataclass
-class TransformedResult:
-    """An object with fields for columns in the analysis table"""
-    scraper: str
-    transformer: str
-    platform: str
-    channel: str
-    date: datetime
-    date_archived: datetime
-    url: str
-    content: str
-    author_id: str
-    author_username: str
+import cisticola.base
 
+class Transformer:
+    """Interface class for transformers"""
 
-class TwitterResult(ScraperResult):
-    """A Twitter specific ScraperResult, with a method ETL/transforming"""
+    __version__ = "Transformer 0.0.0"
 
-    def transform(self) -> TransformedResult:
-        data = json.loads(self.raw_data)
+    def __init__(self):
+        pass
 
-        transformed = TransformedResult(
-            scraper=self.scraper,
-            transformer=self.__version__,
-            platform=self.platform,
-            channel=self.channel,
-            date=self.date,
-            date_archived=self.date_archived,
-            url=data['url'],
-            content=data['content'],
-            author_id=data['user']['id'],
-            author_username=data['user']['username'])
+    def can_handle(data: cisticola.base.ScraperResult) -> bool:
+        pass
+
+    def transform(data: cisticola.base.ScraperResult) -> cisticola.base.TransformedResult:
+        pass
 
-        return transformed
diff --git a/cisticola/transformer/twitter.py b/cisticola/transformer/twitter.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c79e01f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cisticola/transformer/twitter.py
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+import cisticola.transformer
+import cisticola.base
+import json
+
+
+class TwitterTransformer(cisticola.transformer.Transformer):
+    """A Twitter specific ScraperResult, with a method ETL/transforming"""
+
+    __version__ = "TwitterTransformer 0.0.1"
+
+    def transform(self, data: cisticola.base.ScraperResult) -> cisticola.base.TransformedResult:
+        raw = json.loads(data.raw_data)
+
+        transformed = cisticola.base.TransformedResult(
+            raw_id=data.id,
+            scraper=data.scraper,
+            transformer=self.__version__,
+            platform=data.platform,
+            channel=data.channel,
+            date=data.date,
+            date_archived=data.date_archived,
+            url=raw['url'],
+            content=raw['content'],
+            author_id=raw['user']['id'],
+            author_username=raw['user']['username'])
+
+        return transformed
diff --git a/test.py b/test.py
index 678bcdb..a31a081 100644
--- a/test.py
+++ b/test.py
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ controller = cisticola.ScraperController()
 scraper = cisticola.scraper.twitter.TwitterScraper()
 controller.register_scraper(scraper)
 
-engine = create_engine('sqlite:///test2.db')
+engine = create_engine('sqlite:///test.db')
 controller.connect_to_db(engine)
 
 controller.scrape_channels(test_channels)
+