RM of [Organizational] Data
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 03:35:18 GMT
Message-ID: <WJ%7e.12728$5F3.1139_at_news-server.bigpond.net.au>
The issue of the ownership of data is possibly worth exploring. Here we are restricting consideration to data held in a database.
Using the following list of roles associated with any database
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> DATABASE SYSTEMS ROLE-TYPES
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> --------------- Internal to the organisation:
> I01 - business owner(s)
> I02 - business executives and managers
> I03 - general organisation work-groups/end-users
> I04 - DBA (for SQL-DBMS)
> I05 - IT manager
> I06 - internal programmers
> I07 - specialised development teams
> I08 - Operations & help desk personnel
> --------------- External to the organisation:
> E01 - contractors and consultants (in any roles defined above)
> E02 - contract programmers (or software house(s))
> E03 - consultants and suppliers (of selected RDBMS software)
> E04 - consultants and suppliers (of other software & hardware)
> E05 - business, management and financial consultants
> E06 - consultants in Models of Data
All other roles apart from I01 (buiness owner(s)) are what might be termed custodians (of varying degrees) of the data, whereas the actual ownership of the data resolves to the owner of the organisation. Any diasagreements here?
Consequently, implicit in any model of the data should be the understanding that the data ultimately belongs to the business owner.
Thus, implied in the phrase "RM of the data" is the expanded form "RM of organisational data", because data is always associated with an organisation (treating an individual as a minimal organisation) without exception.
Do you agree with this assessment?
Pete Brown
Falls Creek
Oz
www.mountainman.com.au
Received on Sat Apr 16 2005 - 05:35:18 CEST