Comments on: What is a data domain? (examples included) https://www.lightsondata.com/what-is-a-data-domain-examples-included/ Practical resources, online courses, free articles and videos for data management, data governance, data quality, and business intelligence Mon, 08 Sep 2025 04:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: George Firican https://www.lightsondata.com/what-is-a-data-domain-examples-included/#comments/1445 https://www.lightsondata.com/?p=3604#comment-1445 In reply to Liz.

Hi Liz, great question. It depends on your business glossary implementation. Some choose to make the terms unique throughout the Business Glossary. So for example you can only have 1 definition for “vendor”. If multiple definitions need to exist, then you attribute them to different terms such as “marketing vendor”, “finance vendor”, “recurring vendor”, etc.
Others choose to still have the terms unique per domain. So you can find “vendor” under the Finance domain and also under the Marketing domain.

]]> By: Liz https://www.lightsondata.com/what-is-a-data-domain-examples-included/#comments/1441 https://www.lightsondata.com/?p=3604#comment-1441 Thank you for sharing. It really helps me classify the business glossary by domain. Is it reasonable for one business glossary term to belong to more than one data domain? Thank you

]]> By: Scott Prood https://www.lightsondata.com/what-is-a-data-domain-examples-included/#comments/1147 https://www.lightsondata.com/?p=3604#comment-1147 In your sub domain examples there appears to be inconsistency – the sub domains of Customer seem to be ‘Types’ of Customer, likewise the sub domains of ‘Location’ appear to be types of location, whereas the sub domains of Vendor are not.

]]> By: Michael https://www.lightsondata.com/what-is-a-data-domain-examples-included/#comments/1129 https://www.lightsondata.com/?p=3604#comment-1129 In reply to mike.

The domain will be similar to what is available in banking sector.

]]> By: mike https://www.lightsondata.com/what-is-a-data-domain-examples-included/#comments/1101 https://www.lightsondata.com/?p=3604#comment-1101 i have a microfinance office and i need a domain that will be my costumer create account and login anything to send money in and out or to check her acc summary

]]> By: Millie https://www.lightsondata.com/what-is-a-data-domain-examples-included/#comments/1022 https://www.lightsondata.com/?p=3604#comment-1022 Thanks George for your explanation. I wonder if metrics/KPIs is a data domain on its own or fall under different data domains?

]]> By: Pawel https://www.lightsondata.com/what-is-a-data-domain-examples-included/#comments/979 https://www.lightsondata.com/?p=3604#comment-979 Thank you so much for a very clear explanation!

]]> By: George Firican https://www.lightsondata.com/what-is-a-data-domain-examples-included/#comments/975 https://www.lightsondata.com/?p=3604#comment-975 In reply to joe.

A lot of things. In data governance it’s used as a way to categorize different processes, standards, policies, and assign data stewards and data owners. It’s a great way to make sense of the vastness of an organization’s data and help set its focus for its data governance efforts.

]]> By: joe https://www.lightsondata.com/what-is-a-data-domain-examples-included/#comments/974 https://www.lightsondata.com/?p=3604#comment-974 ok, but what is is actually used for? A table of customer names is part of the customer domain. A list of products we sell is part of the product domain. So what? What do we do with that information?

]]> By: David Jaques-Watson https://www.lightsondata.com/what-is-a-data-domain-examples-included/#comments/964 https://www.lightsondata.com/?p=3604#comment-964 One more example: I’ve used Group in the past in an emergency management system. The situation was if an emergency occurred with an overseas tour group (holidaymakers travelling on a bus which crashes, for example) the *only* thing linking these people together is they are part of the tour group! So, I added Group as a subtype of Party (along with the usual suspects of Person and Organisation).

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