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data domain

/ˈdeɪ.tə dəˈmeɪn/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A boundary three teams drew differently and one team enforces.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A bounded business area — customer, order, payment — that organizes data ownership and modeling around a coherent subject.

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See also

bounded contextThe fence inside which customer means one thing, drawn precisely so the fight happens at the gate.
data contractA promise with a schema, signed by no one with the authority to keep it.
data meshA reorganization announced as an architecture.
domain-oriented ownershipA diagram in which every box owns the data and every arrow owns the blame.