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A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data

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data stewardship

/ˈdeɪ.tə ˈstjuː.ərd.ʃɪp/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A responsibility added to a job description, never to a calendar.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The assigned operational responsibility for the quality, definition, and correct use of a defined set of data within its domain.

Evidence

See also

data qualityA program everyone funds, no one owns, and the dashboard reports as green.
remediation backlogThe list of things everyone agrees are broken, sorted by how long they have been agreed.
survivorship ruleThe logic that picks which department was right, then routes the complaint to the other one.