How to Conduct a Thorough Data Governance Best Practice Assessment
Web-sites like Mapquest.com can only map out directions if you tell it where you are heading; thus following a Stephen…
Metadata
Appreciating Metadata Through Music
Metadata is one of the more important aspects of data management, yet many data professionals do not understand or simply…
Data is Risky Business: Metadata Impact on Business Meaning and Risk
Metadata has been with us since the first human smeared charcoal from their campfire and placed the mark of their…
Framework for Managing Knowledge, Content and Documents
Considerations and Guidelines This article focuses on four of the main focal areas within the discipline of unstructured Information Management…
Can You Federate Data Governance?
Organizations struggle with how to determine the appropriate level of authority to give to the people that run their data…
The Business of Data: The Best of Donna
Note from the publisher: This is the final column of the latest TDAN.com series from our friend, Donna Burbank. Donna has…
A Data Governance Maturity Model
In this article, Bob Seiner shares that companies in the process of planning their Data Governance evolution in a systematic…
Best Practices for Agile Documentation
Introduction Ideally, an agile document is just barely good enough, or just barely sufficient, for the situation at hand. Documentation…
It’s All in the Data: Data Anarchy vs Governance
Are We in an Age of Anarchy? Data Anarchy that is. When we look at all the data we use…
Business Glossaries and Metadata: Using the Glossary to Drive Data Quality
I have been fortunate to lead many data quality improvement efforts over my professional life. Those projects have included quality…