Data Stewards' Best Practices
This guide outlines best practices essential for effective data stewardship. From implementing data governance, ensuring data quality to managing access controls and responding to subject's rights requests, your actions help protect the university's valuable information resources.
- Understand the regulatory and contractual obligations.
- Ensure University-Wide Privacy Principles are considered throughout the data lifecycle.
Researchers should visit the OVPR’s Research Data Management site for additional policy considerations.
1. Understand the regulatory and contractual obligations.
Regulatory compliance requirements for personal data may vary. Business use cases can be unique based on the subject location(s), the collection method, and the type of personal data being collected.
2. Ensure University-Wide Privacy Principles are considered throughout the data lifecycle.
From collection to destruction, each data set containing personal information should be handled according to the Privacy Principles*. In some cases, the actions will be required by law; while others may involve general best practices. Understanding of the Privacy Principles and then applying them to personal data is an important responsibility of a Data Steward.
*Security Controls are the responsibility of the System Administrator.