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- An identification of core campus systems that produce data of common interest and the respective data owning department(s), individuals, and data stewards. Examples: Student Enrollment Data - Registrar/ Elizabeth Bennett; Student Admissions - Deborah Decker; Employee Payroll Data - Accounting and Fiscal Services/Brenda Mathias...
- Research and adoption of proper collection formats to collect information necessary to catalogue and manage data governance and catalog information. Data Flux and DAMA offer some useful formats to consider.
- An assessment of the data collection and management practices and data quality of the systems.
- Entry of common data attribute names, descriptions, and business rules into a campus data dictionary and catalogue along with aliases. Document data name aliases.
- A data flow diagram per subject or data context of where the data is transmitted to and how often.
- An assessment of what it means to implement a "zero data defect" policy for this data set.
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