Data Governance Council
Data Governance Council Membership and Contact Information
Members: Norm Bedford, Don Diener , Christina Drum , David Ellison, Karen Emptage , Frank Lucas , Elora Paik, Gwenn Pons, Stacy Shiroma, Kivanc Oner, Rick Storlie , Paul Landrum, Shweta Kadam, Geetha Sendhil , Tim Lockett , Monty Young
As members of the Data Governance Council, data stewards work together to provide a formal mechanism for communication among data users, data processors, and data managers. The Data Governance Council connects the data stewards to ways in which the institution uses the data.
The DGCouncil Meetings page has meeting schedules, agendas and minutes, as well as links to any attachments that were distributed.
A message sent to the DGCouncil mail list will go to entire membership. Any member of the Data Governance Council can post a message to DGCouncil.
Goals established for Data Stewards
- Improve the quality of the data, including accuracy, timeliness, and definition;
- Improve the security of the data, including confidentiality and protection from loss;
- Improve ease of access to data, assuring that data are easily located, easily accessed once located, and that people have enough information about the data to understand what they have found; provide clear and accessible documentation about data; make data more accessible to non-technical users;
- Reduce the redundancy of data, by supporting sharing of data rather than replicating it in multiple sources and by integrating data from separate operational systems;
- Provide the university with the opportunity to make data accessible from legacy systems, bridging the gap until new systems are in place;
- Prepare the university for potential conversions to new systems by improving data and processes.
Tasks and responsibilities assigned to each Data Steward
1. Become familiar with University Data Policies which are the formal direction from Executive Sponsors.
2. Determine each data steward's responsibility at the data element level.
3. Develop operational procedures and processes that provide data integrity by assuring that data is entered and stored accurately.
4. Develop reporting procedures for the Executive Sponsors to monitor the data governance program.
5. Work with the Office of Information Technology to establish security/access guidelines for data.
6. Resolve discrepancies across business units and systems through collaboration.
7 Create a metadata repository which will be used to produce the UNLV data dictionary
8. Manage and implement the NSHE common data elements list.
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