Jenny Brooker, Central Digital and Data Office’s new Chief Data Architect, discusses her passion for data, her career history, and her aims and ambitions in her new role. A focus on data I am fascinated by the power of data …
It’s been several weeks now since we ran our first Show & Tell for the Business Glossaries GDAC subgroup and it took a bit of work to get there. As one of four working ‘subgroups’ we’d been tasked with defining …
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution It’s been a weird old time since March (extra points if you’ve heard that opening before) and the lockdown. However, Data Architecture is continuing to undertake the important work we do making sure the data our …
As more organisations decide to do more with their data, they frequently feel the need for creating a strategy to do so: a Data Strategy. Questions that normally follow this realisation are what exactly is a Data Strategy, what does …
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution Office for National Statistics Hello! My name is Matt Davies. I am the Stakeholder Engagement Manager for Data Architecture in the Office for National Statistics (ONS). My main aim is to promote the work that our …
Metadata. Everyone agrees we should have it, but in the busy worlds we operate in it’s the first thing labelled as “good to have” but not essential. This is dangerous as government departments gather economy-driven information, which, in order to …
The Government Digital Service (GDS) and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) are working closely with government departments to improve how we manage and maintain data. The Government Transformation Strategy published in 2017 had a whole section on making better …
For decades, organisations have been obsessed with technology. First with machines that could make production faster, cheaper and more efficient. Then systems that could manage the information created by these machines...
Who needs Data Architecture? Anniversaries are a time of reflection, so it’s natural to look to the past before we start thinking about the future. For me that means thinking about the last year working as the Data Architecture lead …
Global community of interest People are inherently curious. We look over the fence or hedge to see what neighbours are up to. Sometimes we benchmark – looking to see if their roses are better or worse than ours, for example. …
Data governance is important, it provides the ability to manage the life cycle of data through the implementation of policies, processes and rules in accordance with the organisation's strategic objectives. The allocation of owners One of the tasks that concerns …
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