To be successful, data governance needs to be an embedded part of business-as-usual wherever data is created, transformed, and used. As data becomes easier to create through cloud applications and self-service data marketplaces, data governance experts need to adapt to an agile new environment or risk losing sight of data across the organization.

By implementing dynamic data governance, the Department of Education has implemented basic data governance training across the whole organization to help business owners of data take an active part in documenting the data they collect and use. These users are supported by a team of data governance professionals who assist with content review and sign-off. This method has meant that data governance has become truly distributed, with business areas more in control of their data, downstream users have increased trust in the quality of data, and the governance and security teams have higher trust in the security of assets across the department.

In this talk, we look at how the Department of Education used the Aristotle Metadata Registry to:

• Set up a data inventory for documentation of assets, including technical and business context
• Customized how different users update content to capture information across the data lifecycle
• Developed a streamlined governance review process to support endorsement and publication of assets
• Documented business owners to assign accountability and responsibility for upkeep to executives and business stewards
• Developed reporting tools to improve awareness and oversight of data governance at the executive level

This talk will provide a basic overview of the Aristotle Metadata Registry and how it supports scaling of data governance to hundreds of users to improve data and metadata quality while reducing the burden for business users and data professionals.

Speaker: Samuel Spencer, Chief Executive Officer, Aristotle Metadata

Sam Spencer is CEO and co-founder of Aristotle Metadata and a leader in government data management and data governance. Through the development of Aristotle Metadata, Sam has worked on a range of data initiatives across the government and enterprise, providing input ranging from broader data policy to the development of local metadata teams within departments. Sam is a recognized leader in data management, having presented research on data standards and solutions at conferences in Australia and internationally. His personal goal is to demystify data management and aims to make metadata more accessible to everybody.