The comprehensive management of an organization's data, such as by ensuring consistent definitions of data elements and coordinating the development of data dictionaries. See also RECORDS MANAGEMENT.
The process of creating and managing administrative data so that business processes are supported with accurate, timely, and relevant information. Data administration strives to eliminate redundant and inconsistent data in administrative systems, to promote data standards and common metadata libraries, and to promote access to data.
Function responsible for ensuring definition, integrity, consistency, accuracy of institutional data and identifying data maintenance responsibility; develops and monitors rules and standards that apply to data model; ensures data security policies and procedures.
The body that oversees the management of data across all functions of the organization.
manages ASU's enterprise administrative data; see Data Admin website ( http://www.asu.edu/data_admin/data_administration.htm)
Organizational function that plans and looks after institutional data. Typical functions include: data modeling, naming standards for databases and data elements, manage metadata ( data dictionaries), maintain data access policies, etc.
The process of managing the institutional data in order to provide reliable, accurate, secure and accessible data to meet strategic and management needs at all levels of the enterprise. It is the purpose of this process to improve the accuracy, reliability, and security of the institution's data; reduce data redundancy; provide ease of access, assuring that data are easily located, accessible once located, and clearly defined; and to provide data standards. It is also the purpose of the Data administration function to educate the user community on institutional data policies and to encourage the responsible use of data.