Principles of Data Management

ROLES WITHIN DATA MANAGEMENT

The Data Management Specialist Group has identified three distinct roles within the data management function, known as data administration, database administration and repository administration. In its publication ‘Data Management’, the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (1994b) showed the relationship between data management, these three roles and the broader information-management function using the diagram in Figure 3.4.

The information management roles that are outside the scope of data management include process management, which looks at the business processes that use data; system management, which is the management of the computer systems that support the business processes; and business information ...