Data Governance
Teil 1: Terminologie und Basiskonzepte
IT
Abstract
Data governance – terminology and basic concepts
A conclusive and precise terminology is key to precisely describe and discuss any technical topic. Existing relevant guidance documents on the topics of data governance and data integrity are partially inconsistent, contradictory, incomplete and vague in their terminology. The main goal of this article is providing a consistent set of definitions of terms that will serve as foundation for the provided more detailed discussions and delimitation of specific terms as well as for the article on data governance systems. Besides terminology important basic concepts of data governance are presented and discussed in detail that are essential for the implementation of data governance systems and therewith for the assurance of data quality and data integrity. The author looks at data quality as the overarching, comprehensive data concept. Data integrity and any other data concept are a subset of data quality. A holistic data governance system should be aiming for ensuring the broader concept of data quality and not be limited to data integrity only.
Zusammenfassung
Eine schlüssige und präzise Terminologie ist zur eindeutigen Beschreibung und Diskussion eines jeden Themas unverzichtbar. Die existenten einschlägigen Richtlinien und Leitfäden zum Thema Data Governance (Datenlenkung) und Datenintegrität sind hinsichtlich der verwendeten Terminologie z. T. inkonsistent, widersprüchlich, unvollständig und vage. Die Intention dieses Beitrags ist es, schlüssige Begriffsdefinitionen zu liefern, welche die Grundlage der im Weiteren wiedergegebenen Begriffsdiskussionen und -abgrenzungen sowie auch des Beitrags Data Governance – Teil 2: Datenlenkungssysteme
