Data Stewardship

Chapter 7

Important Roles of Data Stewards

Discusses the key roles that Data Stewards have in improving data quality, managing reference data, identity resolution in master data management, information security, QA support, and metadata management.

Keywords

roles; data quality; identity resolution; metadata management; reference data; rules

Introduction

Data Stewards play an extremely important role in many of the enterprise processes and initiatives that work with the data. These roles include inspecting and improving data quality, managing reference data, establishing the identification of master data records, establishing survivorship rules for Master Data Management (MDM), handling exceptions that come out of the MDM engine, specifying how data ...