0401 Governance Definitions¶

The world of governance is divided into different governance domains that focus on a specific set of assets or activities. Egeria aims to unify the metadata and governance activity across these governance domains.

GovernanceDefinition entity¶

GovernanceDefinition describes an aspect of a governance program. They are authored in the metadata repository. They inherit from AuthoredReferenceable, which means they have a unique identifier and link to external references for more information.

The GovernanceDomainIdentifier defines which governance domain this governance definition belongs to (0 for all). The following are examples of governance domains:

• DATA - the governance of data and its use.
• PRIVACY - the support for data privacy.
• SECURITY - the governance that ensures IT systems and the data they hold are secure.
• IT_INFRASTRUCTURE - the governance of the configuration and management of IT infrastructure and the software that runs on it.
• SOFTWARE_DEVELOPMENT - the governance of the software development lifecycle.
• CORPORATE - the governance of the organization as a legal entity.
• ASSET_MANAGEMENT - the governance of physical assets.

These values are set up as the valid values for the domainIdentifier attribute by the Core Content Pack.

GovernanceDefinition subtypes¶

The governance definitions are organized into specific subtypes and linked together to provide a complete description of the governance program. The types for these more specialized definitions can be found on the following pages:

• 0405 Governance Drivers - describe the motivations behind the governance program.
• 0415 Governance Responses - describe the policies that support each of the drivers.

• 0420 Governance Controls - describe how the policies will be implemented. This includes:

• 0423 Security Definitions - describes governance controls that focus on protecting the organization.

• 0424 Governance Zones - describes security controls that control how access to a collection of metadata is controlled.
• 0430 Development Controls - describes governance controls that that focus on fulfilling unmet needs of the organization through the development of technology.
• 0440 Organizational Controls - identity governance roles and manual procedures (such as approvals) that implement a governance control.
• 0450 Governance Rollout - describes governance controls that are used when rolling out a governance program to the organization.
• 0451 Notifications - describes governance controls that are used to notify people of changes, schedules and events.
• 0462 Governance Actions - describes governance controls that are used to implement governance actions.

GovernedBy relationship¶

The GovernedBy relationship links the governance definitions to the elements they are governing. These elements are Referenceable, so they could be Assets, Processes, Infrastructure, People and Teams, Glossary Terms, Digital Services for example.

• label - the role of the governance definition with respect to the element it is governing.
• description - the description of how the governance is defined.

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