WHAT DOES DATA GOVERNANCE
MEAN?
Effective data governance ensures that data are trustworthy, accurate and consistent and that they are optimally available without compromising privacy and intellectual property. An essential part of data governance is ensuring that data and metadata policies and standards are sufficiently clear and enforceable and that those policies and standards can evolve as the organisation matures.
DATALIGN CAN PROVIDE:
A fully functional data catalogue with a sophisticated search and geospatial browsing capability
A secure, organised, centralised repository for raw data that with no storage limits
A sophisticated search system including a geospatial search capability
Configurable dashboards to highlight alerts and system activities
Secure mechanisms to load files (sometimes very large files) into the repository
Secure mechanisms to receive data from automatic feeds
An ability to partition data into separate domains that can be managed according to the needs of those domains.
A secure API that allows data and metadata to be pulled out of the system or pushed into the system automatically by external providers or other enterprise systems.
An ability to subscribe to events within the system such as data updates concerning a particular geographic entity
An ability to record transformations on the data in order to preserve provenance. Every data asset can thus be tracked back to the raw formats that
An ability to set standards for data domains, and to map incoming data to those standards
An ability to set metadata standards for an organisation and to map user or API input to the metadata standards.
A schema management capability and an ability to validate inputs against schemas
