Topical data related to a specified sphere of University activity or knowledge. A data domain contains one or more data subdomains.

The following University of Rochester data domains have been established by Data Governance:

1. Alumni & Advancement
2. Facilities & Space Services
3. Faculty
4. Finance
5. Human Resources
6. Research Administration
7. Research Products & Outputs
8. Student
9. Reference/Master Data

This data management role represents business processes that generate data and leads the definition of business glossary terms. A steward is primarily concerned with language and the meaning of data. Each data subdomain, or term will have a steward. 

Responsible for: Functional definitions, in collaboration with others, sharing knowledge of business processes, stakeholders, etc... May be called to serve on data management teams.

A category of data connected to related business processes contained within a data domain or functional domain. A data subdomain contains one or more logical data collections.

This data management role serves on the Data Governance Council as a council member and represents a data domain from an executive or strategic level.

Responsible for: Identifying data stewards for the business processes within their domain. Communicating council activity and soliciting feedback from stakeholders within their domain. Sponsoring data management teams.

This data management role represent departments and functional areas that need to use institutional data for operations, reporting, and analytics. They define output requirements (what makes the data valuable to use; attributes needed in formulas, etc...)

Data in support of functions that cross cut multiple spheres of university activities or knowledge (data domain). A functional domain may contain one or more data subdomains.

The following University of Rochester functional domains have been established by Data Governance

1. Analytics
2. Audit
3. Communications
4. Diversity
5. External Relations
6. Global Engagement
7. Information Security
8. Institutional Research & Academic Administration
9. Legal
10. Library and Collections
11. Technology

Data that serves the operations of the University. Examples of operations include clinical care, student admissions, teaching, learning, courses, grants administration, operations finance, patient finance, facilities management, personnel, and more. In contrast, research data pertains to data about the subject being studied, such as human subjects, biological science, or historical texts. However, data about the management of research is considered institutional data.

A set of data elements that support a business process that are contained within a data subdomain. 

The physical instantiation of a logical data collection in a particular technology platform (e.g. a database or spreadsheet). There may be multiple physical copies of a single logical collection.