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Planning for Common Definitions

Part of Jules Keeper's data strategy includes creating common data definitions. The board of Coco Pharmaceuticals asked for more details on what this means, how they would be defined and used as well as the likely cost.

Erin and Jules discussing next phase of data strategy

Working with Erin Overview, they seek to outline the following questions:

  • What are common definitions and their materials?
  • How does it help the business?
  • How are common data definitions created and managed?
  • How are common data definitions used in analytics tools, such as those used by the data science teams?
  • How are common data definitions use in the IT systems?

For Coco Pharmaceuticals, Jules and Erin decide they will:

  • Define the broad topics of data that are key to personalised medicine - these are called subject areas.
  • For each subject area, they will define a glossary term for each of the key concepts.
  • The glossary terms will be organized into categories and linked together.
  • The glossary terms will then be classified to define how data of that type should be governed.

This will provide an initial set of guidance for the business to use when defining new data sources and integrations.

Figure 1 shows the overall process for using these common data definition materials.

Figure 1

Figure 1: process for using common data definitions

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