A new role of data caretaker emerging in business units. Individual takes responsibilities for the data content and quality.
The organizational unit charged with managing a set of related data to ensure data integrity, timeliness, and maximum usefulness to appropriate end users. Generally, the data steward is the business unit charged with the operations that generate the set of data.
Someone responsible for managing data maintained in an authoritative data source.
a general term for a person who may fill one of many roles
a person in a district, division or office given the responsibility of managing a specific collection(s) of enterprise data as a business asset
The data steward acts as the conduit between information technology (IT) and the business portion of a company with both decision support and operational help. The data steward has the challenge of guaranteeing that the corporation's data is used to its fullest capacity.
The person responsible for a data standard. In this role, a Data Steward is charged by his/her Management to develop and maintain the data standard and to counsel Service personnel on the proper use of the data. He/she must: have a thorough knowledge of the subject matter of the standard, provide accurate and current electronic copies of data relevant to the standard, and weigh the pros and cons of comments received during review of the standard. He/she is authorized to defend or modify the standard as necessary in order to ensure its proper use.
In metadata, a data steward is role assigned to a person that is responsible for maintaining a data element in a metadata registry.
