From the course: Designing Data Governance
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Defining data domains
From the course: Designing Data Governance
Defining data domains
Once your data council and stewards are in place, you'll start working on one of your key projects, defining data domains for your organization. A key part of data governance involves correctly categorizing data within all organizational systems and keeping it consistent across systems. So having all stewards align on data domains is the most crucial project you can start working on. Data domains are logical groups of data that address a common purpose, concept, or object. It helps to think of every department in your organization as its own data domain, each with its own subdomains. For example, human resources is one data domain. Within that domain, HR data has several subdomains like recruiting, onboarding, time tracking, and benefits. The exact number of data domains depends on your industry. In the healthcare sector, you might have patient, facility, and medical procedure. Data domains define the model schema and other attributes for each respective business area. For example…
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