THE ELEMENTS OF A DATA DEFINITION
Guidelines are essential to ensure that each data object – entity, attribute, relationship, table, column, etc. – is documented to a particular standard. This standard must provide the minimum acceptable level of descriptive information about data that is to be made available to all the potential users of that data. These potential users are probably first and foremost the developers of future systems, but they may also be people from the business who are interested in knowing what data is available and where.
Although it is possible to suggest what descriptive information about data should be available, these guidelines probably need to be specific to the organisation. This enables the guidelines to cover those ...
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