KSU Metadata Stewards are individuals at KSU with institution-wide data and information management responsibilities that entail internal and external reporting, census data collections, integrated data warehousing and enterprise intelligence facilitation. These enterprise information management functions include stewardship responsibilities for KSU’s metadata. Metadata is broadly defined as "data about data" stored in a metadata repository. A metadata repository includes more than a typical data element dictionary. A comprehensive metadata repository standardizes and stores information about data in terms of their data sources, content, codes, business rules, interrelationships, history etc. in a centralized and widely accessible repository that is usable by information technology specialists as well as non-technical end users.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Mapping of data elements across databases to establish fully integrated enterprise intelligence and data warehousing capabilities.
• Developing, maintaining and expanding KSU’s metadata repository which contains institution’s standards for governing data quality, integrity and data integration.
• Establishing and overseeing business practices to ensure the quality, integrity and integration of the institution’s official census data and data warehouse.
• Investigating institutionally pervasive data quality issues.
• Communicating changes in the metadata repository to the data trustees, stewards, managers and users.
• Implementing electronic data monitoring and metadata error detection strategies to proactively identify and verify data quality, integrity and integration over time.

KSU Metadata Stewards:

• Erik Bowe - Executive Director of Enterprise Information Management
• Leigh Funk - Director of Data Quality Initiatives
• Donna Hutcheson - Director of Enterprise Academic Reporting
• Ken Bridges - Director of Financial Reporting

KSU Metadata Elements List - Coming Soon!