From the course: Data Steward Foundations
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Data stewardship responsibilities
From the course: Data Steward Foundations
Data stewardship responsibilities
- [Instructor] Earlier, I summed up the responsibilities of a data steward as taking care of the organization's data. Now, that's a reasonable description of the role, but it's also pretty high level. What does it actually mean to take care of the organization's data? Well, data stewardship responsibilities may vary from organization to organization, but we can summarize them as fitting into four general categories: data quality, data security, data privacy, and regulatory compliance. Data quality ensures that the organization has accurate, relevant, and timely data to meet its business objectives. Managing data quality requires developing clear data definitions; monitoring data consistency, accuracy, and completeness; validating data quality on an ongoing basis; and promoting data reuse. We'll talk about each of these activities in the maintaining data quality section of this course. Data security protects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the organization's data…
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