SBVR-Driven Information Governance: A Case Study in the Flemish Public Administration

Databases persistently store data and provide standardised access to it for communities consisting of human as well as software agents. However, adequate information governance in such a bi-sortal setting requires more than that. Despite the rigorous formal structure that may have been imposed on a data set, if it cannot be disclosed to third parties, their value is practically zero. The ICT-outsourcing partnership between the Flemish Ministry of Education and Training (FMET) and EDS-Telindus, now HP, appreciated the subtle difference between data and information, and the need for more maturity regarding the governance of their vast (meta-)data landscape. This is shown by initiatives such as the development of a Data Warehouse and an Information Governance Organization.