Enabling Effective Data Use: Terminology, Semantics, and Structures

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About Course

Data Governance professionals work with business terms, glossaries, semantic models, taxonomies, ontologies, data models, and domain structures — even when specialists in other disciplines create many of these artifacts.
This course shows how these artifacts differ, how business meaning moves into data structures, and how they connect across an organization. You will see how business and data domains shape model scope, how centralized and decentralized architectures change the artifact landscape, and where shared concepts require enterprise coordination.
The practical focus is on what these architectural decisions mean for your Data Governance work: maintaining consistent meaning, clarifying ownership, coordinating artifacts, and recognizing where governance must operate across domain boundaries.

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What Will You Learn?

  • Distinguish business terminology, semantic models, and data models.
  • Connect business terms and concepts across related artifacts.
  • Recognize how taxonomies and ontologies structure business meaning.
  • Understand how conceptual, logical, and physical models differ.
  • Identify when shared concepts require enterprise-level coordination.
  • See how Data Architecture shapes artifact scope, ownership, and governance.

Course Content

Data Meaning and Structure
This topic connects the main artifacts that organizations use to define business meaning and translate it into data structures. It distinguishes business terminology, semantic representations, data models, and knowledge graphs, then shows how terms and business concepts move from shared meaning toward conceptual, logical, and physical structures.

  • Classifying Core Artifacts
    12:48
  • Conceptual Understanding
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Introducing Business Terminology
    09:07
  • Conceptual Understanding
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Classifying and Connecting Business Concepts
    13:21
  • Conceptual Understanding
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Translating Business Concepts into Data Models
    14:16
  • Conceptual Understanding
  • Analytical Thinking

Artifact Relationships and Data Architecture
This topic shows how business meaning, semantic representations, and data models work together across an enterprise. It covers mappings between related artifacts, the relationship between business and data domains, and the architectural choices that determine what stays shared, what belongs to a domain, and where Data Governance needs enterprise coordination.

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