The Data Governance Council serves as the oversight layer of the data governance framework. The members represent and communicate with their stakeholders to ensure that Council decisions include the broadest possible information. They serve as the bridge between the Operational Excellence Committee, where strategic direction is set, and the data community groups, where operational discussions occur.
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Topical data related to a specified sphere of University activity or knowledge. A data domain contains one or more data subdomains.
The following University of Rochester data domains have been established by Data Governance:
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Data in support of functions that cross cut multiple spheres of university activities or knowledge (data domain). A functional domain may contain one or more data subdomains.
The following University of Rochester functional domains have been established by Data Governance
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The CDO is a senior executive who bears responsibility for the University’s enterprise wide data and information strategy, governance, control, policy development, and effective use. The CDO’s role will combine accountability and responsibility for data governance, protection, quality and data life cycle management, along with the evangelizing the use of data assets to create business value.
Source: Adapted from Gartner (https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/understanding-the-chief-data-officer-role/) ”
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This data management role serves on the Data Governance Council as a council member and represents a data domain from an executive or strategic level.
Responsible for: Identifying data stewards for the business processes within their domain. Communicating council activity and soliciting feedback from stakeholders within their domain. Sponsoring data management teams.
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This data management role serves on the Data Governance Council as a council member and represents the data needs of cross-cutting functional domains from an executive or strategic level.
Responsible for: Representing business processes that generate data within their functional domain, and/or identifying additional data stewards as necessary. Communicating council activity and soliciting feedback from stakeholders within their domain. May be called upon to sponsor data management teams.
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This data management role represents business processes that generate data and leads the definition of business glossary terms. A steward is primarily concerned with language and the meaning of data. Each data subdomain, or term will have a steward.
Responsible for: Functional definitions, in collaboration with others, sharing knowledge of business processes, stakeholders, etc... May be called to serve on data management teams.
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This data management role represents the technology platform that support business processes where data resides and defines data formats.
Responsible for: Data custodians ensure data in the technical environment complies with data policies and manage the safe custody, transport, and storage of the data. Grants access to the data after permission has been granted by the data steward. Identifies technical definitions (documenting where data resides in a system for a given functional term). May be called to serve on data management teams.
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This data management role represent departments and functional areas that need to use institutional data for operations, reporting, and analytics. They define output requirements (what makes the data valuable to use; attributes needed in formulas, etc...)
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Much information necessary for people to perform their work at the University is properly available to others at the University but is not appropriate to be known by the general public. Data should be classified as Moderate Risk where the unauthorized disclosure, access, alteration, loss or destruction of those data would be expected to have an adverse but not material impact on the University and its affiliates’ mission, assets, operations, finances, or reputation, or only limited harm to individuals. This information is made available to members of the University community with a business need and is not restricted by local, state, national, or international statute regarding disclosure or use.
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