Data Governance
Someone has to own who may change the data and what “good” means across teams. The page starts with definitions of data governance, then moves to guides for building it in Snowflake and a thorough survey article, and ends with concrete action items and starting steps.
Governance decides the rules that the fabric enforces and the lineage records. The same notes are in Data Fabric and Data Lineage.
The first definition is the Definition page from Clever Republic, a consultancy that implements data governance, with the definition taken from DAMA. The DAMA image it once pointed to no longer opens and is kept at the end of the page. What is is Imperva's shorter version: data governance is a set of practices and processes for managing important data across an organization, with frameworks and tools to help.
From definition to build: How to build part 1 is Nick Goble on why data governance controls are critical for consistent, dependable data and how to set them up in Snowflake. part 2 continues with access controls, arguing that Snowflake needs a defined information architecture, a process for providing access, and a group responsible for managing those rules and patterns. For the whole field in one place, a very thorough article is the BARC survey piece, and the figure below comes from it.
Reading is not starting, so the page ends with what to do first. The action items are the data governance page of UW–Madison's Data, Academic Planning & Institutional Research office. 8 steps to start your data governance program is Jenna O'Jea's step-by-step guide to a data governance strategy fitted to the organization, with its components and benefits.
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