(In the context of Data Management) a measurement of the conformity to facts of data to its authoritative source. Term details

Jurisdictions that are deemed to provide an adequate level of protection to personal data by the governing authority under data protection laws applicable to the awarding jurisdiction. Term details

An officially designated system or repository for data that has been determined to be reliable and accurate. Term details

A characteristic of a service or function that results from it being designed and implemented to always be active and available Term details

A database used to store historical information for read-only analytical query purposes. Term details

The final model or outcome from analytics, including the results of a specific analysis captured in a table, report or summary. Term details

A collection of analysis activities that provide added value to business users or customers. Term details

(analytics - the "thing"): The process of examining data sets in order to draw conclusions about the information they contain.   (Analytics - the function): The function or functions(...) Term details

A framework for the sequence of activities to be performed though the data analysis lifecycle. Term details

The ecosystem of technologies and infrastructure that supports the creation and execution of analytics. Term details

The process of converting Personal Data into a form that no longer identifies individuals and where re-identification is not likely* to take place. Term details

A provisioning point that has been designated by the relevant data management governing body as providing data from an authoritative data domain. Term details

Encryption implemented within an application, independent of the levels of encryption implemented in transport (data-in-motion) or storage (data-at-rest). Term details

Lowest level of detail, factual meaning. (e.g., Interest Rate) Term details

An approach to restricting access to resources based on facts about the resources and facts about the subjects seeking access Term details

Systems that support the verification of the identity of a person in the context of access to application or data resources Term details

A data domain that has been designated, verified, approved and enforced by the data management governing body. Term details

An officially designated system or repository for data that has been determined to be reliable and accurate. Term details

A provisioning point that has been designated by the relevant data management governing body as providing data from an authoritative data domain. Term details

An individual technologist (e.g., technical application manager) responsible for the environment to aggregate and transform data into conformed meaning for distribution to the operating unit and(...) Term details

The automated process where APIs, software and AI are used to locate data artifacts based on a specified condition or selection criteria Term details

A collection of software components that enables its user to access the master boot record of a computer or device Term details

The strategy, design and execution of the capabilities needed to support the organization's business functions. Term details

The function that implements and/or executes the data management initiative for its respective business data domain(s). Term details

A unit of information that has a specific meaning in the context of a business process or collection of processes within a data domain. Term details

A collection of term names and definitions from the perspective of the business process Term details

Provides context about the data from the perspective of the business process. Term details

Rules and guidelines developed by an organization, and supported by executive management, to govern its actions. Term details

A statement that defines or constrains some aspect of the business process. Term details

The name(s) and meaning of common business language. Term details

A specialized form of a logical data model, developed with the target usage intention of being a reference artifact of elevated status above any/all other logical perspectives on the same(...) Term details

A business element that is deemed materially important to one or more business processes. Term details

A data element that is aligned to a critical business element and is deemed materially important. Term details

The most senior executive in the enterprise responsible for the strategy and implementation of the data management initiative. Term details

The most senior executive in the enterprise responsible for the strategy and implementation of the data management initiative. Term details

Classification is the categorisation of data according to its level of sensitivity or value, using labels. These are attached as visual markings and metadata within the file. When classification(...) Term details

Infrastructure or data management provider who provides data management capabilities as a managed services in the cloud to data practitioners. Term details

(In the context of Data Management) a measurement of the availability of required data attributes. Term details

A high level simplified data model used to express data concepts important to the business process. Term details

(In the context of Data Management) a measurement of the alignment of content with the required standards. Term details

(In the context of Data Management) a measurement of compliance with required formats, values or definitions. Term details

A generic representation of a concept unencumbered by unique characteristics of an industry or organization. Term details

(In the context of Data Management) a measurement of the availability of required data records. Term details

A business element that is deemed materially important to one or more business processes. Term details

A data element that is aligned to a critical business element and is deemed materially important. Term details

A function within an organization that is accountable for the some dimension of controls that apply across all areas of the organization. Term details

Current, former, and prospective individual consumers contracted to receive products or services. Term details

The result of encryption performed on plaintext using an algorithm, called a cipher. Ciphertext is also known as encrypted or encoded information because it contains a form of the original(...) Term details

A standardized sequence of stages through which all Analytics projects progress. Term details

The strategy and execution of how data is designed (i.e., identified and defined) to support the enterprise objectives. Term details

The function that defines and implements the data content strategy for a given subset of data. Term details

A data asset is any collection of data owned by an organization that is considered to have intrinsic value. Term details

Data that is in physical storage and accessible to those that need it. Term details

Data that is held physically and persistently on a storage device in any digital form Term details

A logical representation of an atomic level data element. Term details

A representation of the state at which data can be accessed, based on the conditions, characteristics or requirements of the data, and the privilege levels of the consumer. Term details

A limit or perspective applied to a data element. Term details

An organized inventory of data assets in the organization. It uses metadata to help organizations manage their data. It also helps data professionals collect, organize, access, and enrich(...) Term details

Data cataloging is the ability to discover, organize, relate, govern and distribute information of the data assets in an enterprise. The information related to data assets may include(...) Term details

The process of organizing data in categories for its most effective and efficient use. Term details

A process, application or stakeholder that receives or uses data from a data producer. Term details

The function that sets the enterprise data risk controls framework and strategy. Term details

A natural or legal person, public authority, agency or another body that, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the Processing of Personal Data. Term details

An individual responsible for one or more data controls. Term details

A data dimension has a specific definition related to a data warehouse. Term details

A logical representation of a category of data that has been designated and named. Term details

An environment containing all data repositories, data-processing systems, data-handling systems, data distribution services, analytics systems, and stakeholders of such data and data-related(...) Term details

A unit of data that is considered in context to be indivisible. [ISO/IEC 2382:2015] Term details

The execution of the non-physical components of the data infrastructure to assure the data is fit-for-purpose. Term details

A concept that represents a person, place or thing. Term details

Data that is of sufficient quality for its intended use through the perspective of the business process that is using it. Term details

A movement of data from one point to another, without involving any intermediaries at a specific level of granularity, to transport data. Term details

The function that defines and implements the standards, controls and best practices of the data management initiative in alignment with strategy. Term details

The process of aligning all representations of data to precise and consistent meaning. Term details

Data that is in the process of being transported. Term details

Data that is in active maintenance. Term details

A representation of the stages that a data asset moves through from creation or acquisition to destruction. Term details

Information about the movement and transformation of data from a point of origin to its final destination. Term details

The development, execution and supervision of plans, policies, programs and practices which deliver control and protection, and enhance the value of data and information assets throughout their(...) Term details

An industry-standard framework for the practice of data management.  It addresses the capabilities needed to position the business case, implement the operating model, ensure funding and support(...) Term details

The activities intended to establish and sustain Data Management. Term details

A model that presents the declarative structure of data through a defined scope and perspective, and to a given level of abstraction. Term details

The process of aligning data to its defined parameters. Term details

The process of obscuring, redacting, or transforming certain elements in data in order to prevent the identification of parties or inappropriate disclosure of private information that may be(...) Term details

The function performed by an executive responsible for the strategy and implementation of the data management initiative at a geographic or operating unit level of an organization. Term details

The person with overall accountability for the meaning, content, quality and distribution of a given set of data. Term details

The process of cleaning, harmonizing and transforming data prior to its processing and analysis. Term details

The sequence of processing steps that are performed between consumption of source data and production of an analytical product or outcome Term details

Any natural or legal person, agency or other body that processes personal data on behalf of the Data Controller Term details

A process, application or stakeholder that provisions data to one or more data consumers Term details

The process of evaluating and grading a given source of data to determine whether it is fit-for-purpose. Term details

A DPIA is an assessment carried out prior to any processing of Personal Data which is likely to result in a high risk to the rights and freedoms of Data Subjects. The assessment should typically(...) Term details

A data protection officer (DPO) is an enterprise security leadership role required by consumer protection regulation. Term details

A data protection officer (DPO) is responsible for overseeing an organization's compliance with requirements from relevant data protection and/or privacy laws, the appointment of whom is(...) Term details

Details a data record’s origins, where it has been and how it has transformed. It is a record of what has influenced the data. Term details

1) A measurement of qualitative and quantitative conditions that determine whether the data is fit-for-purpose in a business process or operation. 2) The function that ensures the data being(...) Term details

The rate at which a data attribute loses its level of quality over time if not maintained. Decay can be measured against all dimension of data quality. Term details

Categories of measurement used to evaluate the degree to which data is fit-for-purpose. Term details

Management of the lifecycle of data quality issues from detection to resolution Term details

A statement that applies an algorithm or logic to a data value to measure the fitness-for-purpose of the value. The statement is the documented definition of the criteria used to measure that(...) Term details

The geographic location of physical infrastructure on which data is stored Term details

The ability of a data asset to remain intact and available in the face of failures in the infrastructure on which it is hosted or through which it is accessed Term details

The potential for a loss related to your data Term details

The protection of data from accidental or intentional unauthorized use, modification, destruction, disclosure or theft. Term details

A classification of the information within a data asset that indicates the level of control and protection that must be applied to the asset due to the nature of the data and its sensitivity or(...) Term details

Any organized collection of data made available for consumption. Term details

An agreement that sets out a common set of rules between the data producer and data consumer that establishes terms and restrictions of the use of consumed data. Term details

A legally enforceable authority that is asserted over data by any entity, including not only the laws imposed by governments and regulators, but also the legally binding contractual obligations(...) Term details

An executive responsible for ensuring adequate funding of the data management initiative. Term details

Data Subject refers to any natural person who can be identified, directly or indirectly. Term details

The ability to track a data construct back to the construct it was derived from as a more concrete instantiation. Term details

The process of converting the meaning and format of data from one system to another. Term details

An industry-standard framework for the practice of data management.  It addresses the capabilities needed to position the business case, implement the operating model, ensure funding and support(...) Term details

The act of converting encoded information back into its original form Term details

Differential privacy is a formal mathematical model of privacy. In simplified terms, differential privacy requires that the output of an analysis should reveal (almost) no information specific(...) Term details

Data that are created from other data or calculated. Term details

The removal of a data asset from all places in which it is stored in a manner that ensures it cannot be discovered or restored by any forensic means Term details

Controls that are designed to detect the fact that something has occurred Term details

Data elements that are subjective thereby including an element of opinion or human interpretation. Term details

The removal of a data asset from all places in which it is stored Term details

The level of the organization that performs specific activities for the data domain. Term details

A data protection officer (DPO) is an enterprise security leadership role required by consumer protection regulation. Term details

An agreement that sets out a common set of rules between the data producer and data consumer that establishes terms and restrictions of the use of consumed data. Term details

ISO 15836:2008 (Dublin Core) establishes a standard for cross-domain resource description, known as the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set. This defines the elements typically used in the context(...) Term details

a common shortening of 'electronic discovery', which is the process of discovery in litigation that is carried out in electronic formats. Term details

Employees mean current, former and prospective staff including full or part-time workers, interim or casual workers, salaried workers, consultants, contractors or temporary workers whether(...) Term details

The act of converting data to encoded information that can only be converted back to its original form with the use of a unique key Term details

The key used in or generated by the encryption process that is required to enable decryption Term details

(In the Context of Data Management) The level of the organization that performs organization-wide business and/or control function activities. Term details

The strategy and execution of how business, data and technology functions are holistically designed to support the organization. Term details

The authoritative collection of metadata across the organization. Term details

A status granted to a person or group of persons representing their permission to access a specific data asset or any data asset with specific scope and characteristics Term details

Currently, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta,(...) Term details

Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data. Term details

Currently, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta,(...) Term details

In the context of controls, recorded facts that prove the existence and application of a control Term details

A process by which records are catalogued, queued and remediated after failing a data quality rule. Term details

An individual responsible for executing the data management strategy as defined by the Group Data Officer. Term details

An open standards business conceptual model developed by EDM Council members of how financial instruments, business entities and processes work in the financial industry. Term details

An open standards business conceptual model developed by EDM Council members of how financial instruments, business entities and processes work in the financial industry. Term details

(In the context of Data Management) An operational function of the organization (e.g., data quality function). Term details

EU General Data Protection Regulation, or Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016. Term details

EU General Data Protection Regulation, or Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016. Term details

A single, precisely defined, verified and officially designated version of data. Term details

Recommended best practices that: 1) Support implementation of a standard or interpretation of policy requirements; or 2) address areas not covered by existing policy documents Term details

A physical computing device that protects and manages digital keys and performs encryption and decryption Term details

A data environment incorporating both on-premises infrastructure and cloud platforms. Term details

Inference on the Semantic Web can be characterized by discovering new relationships. On the Semantic Web, data is modeled as a set of (named) relationships between resources. “Inference” means(...) Term details

The function that enables consistent and standardized access, governance and control to an organization's information assets. Term details

synonym for Data Sensitivity Classification Term details

An area where original source files are stored immediately prior to any Extract, Transformation and Load (ETL) processing. Term details

an order designed ensure that the company complies with its duty to preserve information whilst litigation is pending or ongoing. Sometimes also referred to as Preservation Orders Term details

Legitimate Interest is a clear and specific benefit or outcome which is recognised as a lawful basis for the processing of personal data, subject to such processing being necessary to achieve(...) Term details

A cyber-security attack that exploits information about the data flows within an organization Term details

Data that tracks data usage, activities and operations. Term details

A data model that is based on the data concepts that has all data attributes and relationships required to support the business process independent of any particular technology or solution. Term details

A business function or service where responsibility for its running has been wholly outsourced to a third-party provider. Term details

Entities, relationships, and attributes which are identified as critical, shared across the enterprise, and foundational to key business processes and application systems, and peripheral and(...) Term details

The process of achieving master data includes all the defined data management capabilities along with a process of compiling an authoritative value when sources present data variation. Term details

The degree to which the use of a data element in the business process could result in a substantive impact to the financial, operational or reputational position of the organization. Term details

Data that serves to provide additional information or context about other data. Term details

The function that ensures the documentation, definition, and implementation of metadata. Term details

An individual who is responsible at the domain level to monitor the quality of the business element and data element metadata and assist with access to and application of the metadata. Term details

In the context of Analytics, a model is a system of postulates, data, and inferences presented as a mathematical description of an entity or state of affairs. In more general contexts, a(...) Term details

The tendency of a model to shape or produce results that deviate from what would be the most likely observed outcomes in the real world when faced with the same conditions as the model. This(...) Term details

The specification of the information that should be documented to explain the provenance, inputs, parameter, functionality, outputs, assumptions and constraints of a model. Term details

Methods and techniques that enable the decisions taken within a model or algorithm to be understood and communicated. Term details

The activities involved in readying a model for operation in a production environment and maintaining its operation in that environment. Term details

A combination of two or more cloud environments Term details

A hierarchical structure of concepts or entities within a domain, organized by relationships. Term details

A model representing how a business process or set of processes delivers value to its stakeholders. Term details

The level of the organization that performs unique business and/or control function activities. Term details

Data that supports the processes and systems that operate a business. Term details

A database used to store, manage, and track information as data is received or processed. Term details

Contains information that is available in operational systems and run-time environments from the perspective of the process execution. Term details

The data domain of an output from a business process or calculation Term details

Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a Semantic Web language designed to represent rich and complex knowledge about things, groups of things, and relations between things. Source:(...) Term details

Defining personal data, as distinct from personal information, or personally-identifiable information. Personal data is defined in the GDPR. Article 4(1) states that personal data “means any(...) Term details

Any information that may be used to make a record of a person identifiable, directly or indirectly. Term details

Personnel mean current, former and prospective staff including full or part-time workers, interim or casual workers, salaried workers, consultants, contractors or temporary workers whether(...) Term details

Personal data concerning health should include all data pertaining to the health status of a person which reveal information relating to the past, current or future physical or mental health(...) Term details

A data model that is the instantiation of meaning, relationships and data attributes into a physical implementation automated by technology. Term details

Metadata that describes the physical location of data. Term details

Any information that may be used to make a record of a person identifiable, directly or indirectly. Term details

In the context of information security, plaintext is unencrypted information pending input into cryptographic algorithms, utilizing encryption algorithms.  This usually refers to data that is(...) Term details

An organizational body or entity assigned various responsibilities related to the centralized and coordinated management of those projects under its domain. Source: Project Management Institute(...) Term details

High level directive that expresses goals and represents management expectations for legal, regulatory and/or organizational requirements. Term details

A statement of belief or foundational concepts that provide guidance for decision making and behaviors. Term details

An array of technologies that aim to reduce privacy risks associated with data processing. Term details

A low level step or task in a process that specifies how to achieve an activity. Term details

A series of steps that when executed in order achieve the desired outcome. Term details

Any operation or set of operations which is performed on data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration,(...) Term details

Is defined by the GDPR as any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in(...) Term details

An organizational body or entity assigned various responsibilities related to the centralized and coordinated management of those projects under its domain. Source: Project Management Institute(...) Term details

Personal data concerning health should include all data pertaining to the health status of a person which reveal information relating to the past, current or future physical or mental health(...) Term details

A service from which data associated with a data domain can be acquired after it has been sourced. Term details

Processing of personal data in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific individual without the use of additional information, provided that such additional(...) Term details

The process of converting Personal Data into a form whereby it can no longer be attributed to a specific individual, without the use of additional information, provided that such additional(...) Term details

The act of disposing of a given data set such that it is expunged from all systems and is not recoverable. Term details

A piece of information that is not of itself a unique identifier of an entity, but that is sufficiently well correlated with the entity that it can be combined with other quasi-identifiers to(...) Term details

A tool to define a range of roles and responsibilities across the stakeholders of a process. Term details

RDF is a standard model for data interchange on the Web. RDF has features that facilitate data merging even if the underlying schemas differ, and it specifically supports the evolution of(...) Term details

The sub-set of data that represent the information (format, time) that must be retained for legal, regulatory or operational purposes. Term details

Data that defines the set of allowable values to be used by other data fields. Term details

(In the context of Data Management) The level of the organization that performs geographic-specific requirements for business and/or control function activities. Term details

RDF is a standard model for data interchange on the Web. RDF has features that facilitate data merging even if the underlying schemas differ, and it specifically supports the evolution of(...) Term details

An approach to restricting access to resources based on roles that have been assigned to the subjects seeking access to the resources Term details

A collection of software components that enables its user to access off-limits areas of a computer or device Term details

A testing environment that isolates untested code changes and outright experimentation from the production environment or repository. Term details

A set of credentials which act as a key to unlock or provide access to protected resources or sensitive information. Term details

A model that defines the meaning of things that are important to the business process and the relationships between those meanings. Term details

Semantics is the linguistic and philosophical study of meaning. Term details

Personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, data concerning health or sex life, sexual orientation, genetic(...) Term details

An agreement between a service provider and a service consumer, minimally covering quality, availability, and responsibilities. Term details

The Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) is a common data model for knowledge organization systems such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading systems and taxonomies. Using(...) Term details

The Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) is a common data model for knowledge organization systems such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading systems and taxonomies. Using(...) Term details

An agreement between a service provider and a service consumer, minimally covering quality, availability, and responsibilities. Term details

An SLO (service level objective) is an agreement within an SLA about a specific metric like uptime or response time. Term details

An individual who is an authority in a business process, data manufacturing process or application. Term details

Any application or repository where data is initially captured. Term details

The authoritative data source for the specified data element after it has been remediated and validated. Term details

The genesis of data content prior to being captured electronically. Term details

An area where data are stored in temporary tables immediately after Extract, Transformation and Load (ETL) processing but prior to upload into a data repository. Term details

An interested participant (e.g., data producer, data consumer, supporting process) in the data ecosystem. Term details

A rule or set of rules that defines expected actions for achieving compliance with associated policies. Term details

Contractual clauses approved by the European Commission, which can be included in controller-to-controller or controller-to-processor contracts in order to allow for the international transfers(...) Term details

Standard Data Transfer Clauses are contractual clauses approved by relevant authorities in a specific jurisdiction, that provide a lawful mechanism for the cross border transfer of Personal Data(...) Term details

An individual who is an authority in a business process, data manufacturing process or application. Term details

Any application or repository where data is initially captured. Term details

The authoritative data source for the specified data element after it has been remediated and validated. Term details

A presentation of the vision of the ideal future state operating model of a business process or a collection of processes within the organization. Term details

An orderly classification of things or concepts into parent-child relationships. Term details

Enforcement of control of access to information, files, systems or networks via access points Term details

The function that manages the technical implementation of the data management initiative. Term details

Used to describe the creation, organization, movement, change and storage of the data from the perspective of the physical implementation. Term details

The strategy and execution of how the physical infrastructure is designed to support the business and data needs of the organization. Term details

The function that supports the technical strategy, design, and execution plan for the technical infrastructure in alignment with the data strategy, design and execution to support the business(...) Term details

(In the context of Data Management) a word or phrase used to describe a thing or express a concept in a clearly defined context. Term details

Data introduced into the internal data ecosystem obtained from an external source. Term details

A level of storage within a tiered storage architecture Term details

A method of assigning data to different types of storage media based on a range of requirements for cost, availability, performance and recovery Term details

(In the context of Data Management) a measurement of the degree to which data is both representative of current conditions and available for use. Term details

Tokenization is the process of replacing a value with an alternative value, a token. The token is usually randomly generated and can be of the same structure and format as the input value. This(...) Term details

A presentation of the vision of the ideal future state operating model of a business process or a collection of processes within the organization. Term details

The ability to trace a data item back to its origin, including the identification of any other data items that were inputs to its calculation or derivation Term details

Data describing an event in a business process at a specific point in time. Term details

(In the context of Data Management) a measurement of the degree that no record or attribute is recorded more than once. Term details

Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a Semantic Web language designed to represent rich and complex knowledge about things, groups of things, and relations between things. Source:(...) Term details