Date: 2011-02
Author: National Forum on Education Statistics
Domain: Processing Data
Subdomain: Storing and Preserving Data
Type of Resource: Term
Citation: National Forum on Education Statistics. 2022. Traveling through Time: The Forum Guide to Longitudinal Data Systems. https://nces.ed.gov/forum/ldsguide/book3/acknowledgments.asp. Accessed 4 December 2024.
Data governance is best understood as both an organizational process and a structure that attempts to identify, address, and prevent problems with data in order to improve data quality through the creation of social-technical systems and enforcement of policies, roles, responsibilities, and procedures. Data governance is a continuous and iterative process of handling data throughout the information life cycle.
Keywords: Data Collection, Data Governance, Data Sovereignty, Data Stewardship