Hi, A Data Steward is defined here as: *Data Steward: * The persons responsible for University functions and who determine Data Maintenance and Control Methods are Data Stewards.
The secondary position is Data Custodian: *Data Custodian:* Persons or departments providing operational support for an information system and having responsibility for implementing the Data Maintenance and Control Method defined by the Data Steward. The Data Maintenance and Control Method is defined as: *Data Maintenance and Control Method:* The process defined and approved by the Data Steward to handle the following tasks: 1. Definition of access controls with assigned access, privilege enablement, and documented management approval, based on job functions and requirements. 2. Identification of valid Data sources 3. Acceptable methods for receiving Data from identified sources 4. Process for the verification of received Data 5. Rules, standards and guidelines for the entry of new Data, change of existing Data or deletion of Data 6. Rules, standards and guidelines for controlled access to Data 7. Process for Data integrity verification 8. Acceptable methods for distributing, releasing, sharing, storing or transferring Data 9. Acceptable Data locations 10. Providing for the security of Confidential Data and Operation Critical Data 11. Assuring sound methods for handling, processing, security and disaster recovery of Data 12. Assuring that data are gathered, processed, shared and stored in accordance with the University privacy statement posted on www.oakland.edu The full policy is at: http://www.oakland.edu/policies/860. Theresa On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 9:24 AM, David Huth <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > > > At the University of Utah we are revising our Data Management Policy ( > http://regulations.utah.edu/it/4-001.php). Part of the revision is to > reassess the definitions of Stewardship roles as these are a source of > confusion. A cursory review of other University policies reveals that > there is not consistency on what a Data Steward (and other related roles > like Data Trustee, Data Custodian) means across Higher Education. I would > like to summarize the various definitions for our internal needs, as well > as share the findings with the Higher Ed community, and I am asking for > your help in this effort. I would appreciate it very much if list members > with institutions who have a Data Management policy would send me ( > [email protected]) the link to their Data Management Policy. In about a > month I will repost observations on Data Stewardship role definitions to > the list. > > > > Thank you, > > > > Dave Huth > > University of Utah > > Enterprise Data Archtiect > > ATTN: Please be aware that when you respond to an ACUPA-L e-mail, the > reply will be distributed to the ENTIRE e-listing of members. If you do NOT > want to send an e-mail to everyone, please reply directly to the individual > who initiated the query (their e-mail address appears in the "From" line of > their original e-mail). > > If you wish to remove yourself from the ACUPA e-mail list, please go to > this web address and fill out the form. We will remove you from the list > within 24 hours during normal business hours. > > http://www.acupa.org/MembershipForm_Discontinue.html > -- Theresa Rowe Chief Information Officer Oakland University
