Chapter 8. Performing Information Governance Tasks in “Big Data” Projects

This final chapter in Part II focuses on big data. As discussed in Chapter 2, “Other Core EIM Functions,” there are few areas of information technology with more market focus than big data. This chapter focuses on the discovery, control, and usage of big data from an information governance perspective. The topic of discovery begins with a discussion of the information governance concept of data ownership in the context of big data (e.g., who in the organization “owns” social networking data). The second topic discusses how to manage or control big data within the organization. Traditional structured data that is generated in enterprise information management (EIM) applications ...

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