The Data Governance team is ready to kick off the working group for Race and Ethnicity institutional definitions on Tuesday, July 11. Part of this group’s efforts in helping to standardize institutional definitions involves facilitating the development of working groups, consisting of university and medical center subject matter experts and data stewards. Read on to see how you can get involved.
Presently, there are no standard definitions for Pronouns and Legal Sex across the university and Wexner Medical Center as they pertain to institutional data. The Data Governance team works to help standardize institutional definitions by facilitating the development of working groups, comprised of university and medical center subject matter experts and data stewards. After the success of the earlier June session, the Data Governance team is planning a second Pronouns and Legal Sex Institutional Definitions working group session for Wednesday, June 21. Read more to learn how to get involved.
The Data Governance team facilitates the development of working groups, composed of faculty and staff from across the university and medical center, for the purpose of creating standardized institutional definitions.
The Data Governance team is now ready to kick off the working group for Pronouns and Legal Sex institutional definitions. To attend the upcoming session, check out the full post and use the registration information provided.
The OTDI Data Governance team is excited to announce the next four drafting sessions in our definitions initiative .
Check the full blog post for registration information to attend a drafting session from Friday, April 14 through Wednesday, May 31. Specific terms will be discussed during each session. Approved and finalized definitions can be found on the Approved Institutional Definitions webpage.
Feel free to share this information with team members who communicate about student data and may have interest in this project.
Late last year, Ohio State’s Data Governance team launched a new initiative to standardize institutional definitions, partnering with colleagues across the university.
The first batch of these definitions, including full-time student, part-time student, and student rank has been finalized and is posted on the approved institutional definitions webpage . University members are encouraged to review these definitions and keep them in mind when discussing and analyzing student-related data.
The second batch of student-related terms, including definitions for full-time, part-time, and half-time students, is ready for community review. The group is open to hearing from all faculty and staff from the university and Wexner Medical Center during the review period. Those interested in reviewing these definitions are asked to fill out this Qualtrics survey by Friday, February 10 .
The license agreement for Collibra, the university’s data catalog tool, expires on December 22.
The current license agreement with Collibra expires on Thursday, December 22, and the system will be inaccessible beginning this date. The Data Governance team is currently exploring options to support the university’s data governance needs, though a final solution will not be announced until sometime in 2023. In the meantime, all data currently stored within Collibra will be preserved for the next tool. Additionally, users can continue to submit metadata via ServiceNow or by contacting the team at datagovernance@osu.edu and they will hold onto it until a new tool is selected.
Once a vendor has been selected to host the data catalog, an announcement will be made. Users can reach to datagovernance@osu.edu with any questions.
Last month, the Data Governance team within the Office of Technology and Digital Innovation (OTDI) launched a new initiative to standardize institutional definitions, partnering with colleagues across the university and medical center.
The group is now collecting feedback on definitions developed for their first batch of terms, which fell under the “student” umbrella: undergraduate, graduate, professional, non-degree and non-credit students.
We use words like “student” and “employee” every day, but did you know that we don’t have standard definitions for these terms across the university and medical center? The Data Governance team is launching an initiative to standardize institutional definitions and is seeking assistance from colleagues across the university and medical center.
The webpages for Data Services information managed by the OTDI Data and Analytics team, have been reorganized into the OTDI Offerings webspace. You can now use it.osu.edu/data as a starting point for learning more about the Data Services toolset and other related information.
In September, Lynne Sanbe and CK Bhatia will join The Ohio State University as Chief Applications Officer and Chief Data Integrations Officer. Lynne joins Ohio State from Temple University, where she has served as Associate Vice President of Information Technology Services, Applications, and Data since 2007. CK joins the university from Farm-Credit Mid-America, a financial services company where he served as the Chief Data Officer.
