When reference data comes up in discussions with other data management or data governance practitioners, we sometimes realize we mean different things or we only overlap in our definitions 80% of the time. Within a data governance conversation, this seems a bit ironic. So what is reference data, in the context of data management (let’s not worry about programming languages at this point)? I’ve been looking for that one standardized definition and of course, I could not find one – again, in the context of data governance, I see this as another irony.<\/p>\n
One thing that’s agreed upon is that managing reference data is important. It is important,\u00a0because:<\/p>\n
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Though, we cannot properly manage what we don’t know, and so we need to have a clear consensus to what reference data is. First, let’s look at the:<\/p>\n