Experience
Business Glossary
[Work in Progress]
Building a business glossary is not easy and creating standards for it isn't either. Applying standards will result in consistency and usability of the glossary data. So what standards need to be provided? Standards need to be provided for each field however the standards will vary depending on organization and industry. Some standards we provided, the business definition needs to follow a language guideline such as American Psychological Association (APA) Style, Chicago Manual of Style or Modern Language Association (MLA) Style.
Standards
Fields with Standards
Business Term Name
Title casing (APA guidelines)
Business Term Definition
Length
APA guidelines
Data Classification
Distinct types
Data Domain
Project Name
Acronym, Abbreviation, Synonym, Parent/Child Term, Related Term
Business Rule(s), Data Example(s)
Content Quality
Standards
Standards will support content quality
Content Reviews
Review of the business glossary will need to be carried out on a quarterly or annual basis (depending on volume)
Identification
Issues found in the business glossary need to be addressed and a process to make the DG team aware of the issue is necessary
Utilize a submission method for users to submit issues found
Data Governance Measures
[Work in Progress]
Data Governance Application
Business term count
Data asset count
Number of users
Reference Data
Reference term count
Data Governance Deliverables
Number of deliverables
AI Data Governance Framework
The Data Governance Artificial Intelligence framework is a focus on the collection of standards, rules, processes, responsibilities and security in the area of Artificial Intelligence.
Values
Data Privacy
Personal data
Proprietary data
Ethics
Bias
Identify and mitigate bias
Implement process to assess and track bias
Data Consent
Model Transparency
Transparency provides openness and results in a minimization of unknowns regarding a model
A model needs to be transparent regardless of complexity
Standards
Documentation
Project
Explanation of the object/process (i.e. model)
Workflows
Deliverable
Data Requirements Template (DRT)
Define terms the business would need to know to understand the model's inputs/outputs and structure
Data Mapping
Applicable if data flows aren't captured autonomously using the Data Governance application