Data catalog may also catalog owners and stewards for

Data Catalog may also catalog owners and stewards for data categories
and sub-categories and assign their related roles and workflows.
For example, Talend Data Catalog may catalog the data owners for ‘customer’ as well as ‘customer identity’, ‘customer billing’, ‘customer contact’ and ‘customer
ship-to information’.
RACI is an acronym derived from the four key responsibilities most typically used: Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed. The RACI Model
is a good model of a responsibility assignment matrix. It’s easy to understand and easy to use. It’s particularly useful if your data governance will involve
different departments and divisions in your organization.
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Figure 9: Identifying roles and responsibilities with Talend Data Catalog

Empower people for data curation, and remediation
Your data strategy success can be measured by the number of people who connect to your sources, but also and their
level of trust with the data. To do so, you both need to offer role-based easy to use applications that will help you
to engage people and make them accountable for data accuracy and value.
Empower people to curate data
According to Wikipedia, data curation “is the organization and integration of data collected from
various sources. It includes annotation, publication, and presentation of data to make sure it’s valid
over time”. This will be enabled once you put in place an explicit RACI Model where you define
who can define, edit, validate, and enrich data in your systems.
Now it’s time to encourage people to actually do it. Communication is vital; y ou may have
decided with your executive sponsor to communicate about your project launch officially.
When doing so, involve your internal communication department so that you explain the
broader purpose of your project.
Why is empowering people so important? A data governance project is not just intended to let
Cleansing and
consolidating consumer
data enables us to deliver
the kind of personalized
experience today’s
consumers deserve and
expect.
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