{"id":184,"date":"2017-01-23T09:49:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T09:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/?p=184"},"modified":"2018-05-25T10:17:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T09:17:27","slug":"the-data-cookbook-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/2017\/01\/23\/the-data-cookbook-evaluation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Data Cookbook Evaluation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organisations have become more reliant on their data and reporting capabilities. However,\u00a0knowing what information needs to be reported and where that information is stored is difficult\u00a0to answer. Trying to find an answer to a simple question can be quite a lengthy &amp; difficult\u00a0process if the data is not organised, manageable or easily accessible. Due to this, staff can often\u00a0spend an enormous amount of time defining what data means, figuring out how to access it and\u00a0then repeating the process because there is no easy way to record what they have already\u00a0decided or learned. Diagram 1 outlines a list of identified issues &amp; problems with data\u00a0management.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-186\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/05\/thedatacookbook.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/05\/thedatacookbook.png 620w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/05\/thedatacookbook-300x111.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/05\/thedatacookbook-250x92.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In order to help resolve these issues, an enterprise data dictionary could be the solution. Having\u00a0a formal, collated &amp; centralised data terminology &amp; report definitions repository would allow an\u00a0organisation to better manage their data across the enterprise.<br \/>\nFor this evaluation, The Data Cookbook tool will be reviewed to determine how well it works as\u00a0a data governance \/ data dictionary tool for the University of Birmingham (UoB) and the possible\u00a0impact it could have on the organisation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/intranet.birmingham.ac.uk\/it\/innovation\/documents\/public\/Experiments\/TheDataCookBook-Evaluation-v0.1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organisations have become more reliant on their data and reporting capabilities. However,\u00a0knowing what information needs to be reported and where that information is stored is difficult\u00a0to answer. Trying to find an answer to a simple question can be quite a lengthy &amp; difficult\u00a0process if the data is not organised, manageable or easily accessible. Due to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/2017\/01\/23\/the-data-cookbook-evaluation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Data Cookbook Evaluation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-storage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}