University
Data-AKA Administrative Data/Information
- Enterprise Data is the collection of data
elements that are relevant to the operations,
plans, or management of more than one ASU unit
or are reported on or used in "official"
administrative university reports.
Data
Trustee - The individual identified by the
office responsible for the collection and/or
maintenance of the specified data element(s).
Data
Integrity - The qualities of validity and
reliability conjoined with the accuracy of values.
Data
Model - A diagrammatic representation of
the objects and their properties that are needed
within an organization to accomplish its mission.
Also frequently called an E/R Diagram.
Data
Dictionary - A reference tool (in paper
or electronic form) that provides a list of
all the data elements and their alias names.
A data dictionary usually contains a working
definition of each element, the values that
are allowed, location information, and additional
metadata deemed important for an organization
to maintain about its data assets.
Data
Element - A single property or attribute
of an object (entity). For example, name is
a data element frequently associated with the
entity person; course grade is an attribute
associated with a student and a specific class.
Data
Value - An instance of a data element. For
example, John J. Jones is a name of a specific
person.
Domain
- The set (collection) of all possible data
values for a specified data element. For example,
M and F may be the domain for the data element
Gender.
Repository
- Information about the data in an organization's
electronic systems. The repository is used to
catalog the meta-data or to enable software
development tools and operational systems to
assess the meta-data. Data dictionaries are
forerunners to repository.
