Re: RM of [Organizational] Data

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 03:35:18 GMT, "mountain man" <hobbit_at_southern_seaweed.com.op> wrote:

>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
>> ==================================
>> DATABASE SYSTEMS ROLE-TYPES
>> ==================================
>>
>> --------------- 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?

A fuzzy statement that leads nowhere.

>Consequently, implicit in any model of the data should be
>the understanding that the data ultimately belongs to the
>business owner.

A blatant non sequitur.

It is just the contrary. A data model that is independent of all that arbitrary stuff would be a better data model. We have such data models so this is a complete waste of time.

>
>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?

Do the readers of the group agree about this is mental masturbation?

Regards Received on Sun Apr 17 2005 - 08:20:52 CEST