Data Governance

Data governance encompasses the people, processes, and technologies used to guide how data stewards and data consumers interact with university data assets. Data governance provides guidance on how to access, use, curate and secure data. At RIT, Data Governance strives to maximize the value of data while minimizing the inherent risks involved with access and usage by providing guidelines and training.

The university’s data governance policy outlines RIT’s approach to governing administrative data and defines the roles that support data governance. The policy assigns accountability and responsibility to the data stewards who manage the data's lifecycle.

RIT Data Stewardship Model requires RIT Computer Account authentication.

Use this link to access the Data Stewardship Toolkit which requires RIT Computer Account authentication to view.

RIT Data Stewards List requires RIT Computer Account authentication to view.

Use this link to access the Data Stewardship Toolkit which requires RIT Computer Account authentication to view.

The RIT data stewardship model uses data domains and subject areas to represent university data lifecycles. We use them to assign accountability and responsibility for data stewardship.  Data domains are broad categories of data that are created by university business processes. Subject areas exist within domains and are a detailed view of which data are created and who stewards it. Often these categories align with a functional area and reporting hierarchies. Some data cut across multiple domains and are considered enterprise data domains.

In the university catalog, data sharing begins with a ‘policy’ and these policies are applied to ‘data products’. When data stewards approve a request for access, a data sharing agreement is established.

Click this link for the step-by-step directions to create a data sharing agreement.