Data Governance Council Meeting
Wednesday, June 13th, 10:00 - 11:00
Student Union Room 205
Attachment A - Summary of Seiner Article
Robert Seiner in Data stewardship roles and responsibilities describes data stewardship as the formalization of accountability – stewardship already exists in every organization, it is just that the data stewards don’t have that title, or the responsibility for data outlined in their job description.
Seiner defines two different levels of data stewardship – Program data stewards, and Participating data stewards. In our proposed model, Program data stewards are equivalent to the Data Governance Executive Sponsors, and the University Data Quality Administrator. Participating Data Stewards are the Subject Data Stewards (the person who will be THE data steward for an area), the Technical Data Stewards who will work together with the subject data steward, and some of what we called data administrators. Seiner also outlines a role for data usage, which is mostly outside the roles we have detailed. This diagram takes Seiner’s structure, and shows how our proposed model overlaps his definitions.
Barney Beal, in A data steward’s job is never done, says that data stewards are people in departments who monitor the quality of data coming in and going out. This role is a “Participating Role” in the Seiner model, and would be most like what Seiner calls the Data Production Data Steward. In our model, it is the Data Administrator, reporting to the Subject Data Steward.