Data Governance Lead Kit
Run data governance: operating model, glossary, catalogue metadata, classification, access, quality, lineage, maturity and Data Act.
10 templates in 4 steps, in the order you use them. Open any template in the editor, fill it in and export it to PDF, DOCX or HTML.
Review and governance
Data Governance Operating Model Template (Data Mesh)
FullData governance and data mesh operating model: principles, domain map, roles, decision rights RACI, policies as code, standards register, metrics, maturity roadmap
DAMA-DMBOK 2nd Ed. Revised (name only); data mesh principles (Dehghani)Business Glossary Template
StandardGoverned business terms: inclusion rules, definition-writing rules, term lifecycle, owner, steward, status, full entry format, change requests, review
ISO 704:2022 principles; DAMA-DMBOK 2nd Edition Revised (name only)Data Catalogue Metadata Standard Template (DCAT 3)
FullMinimum metadata set mapped to W3C DCAT 3, asset identifiers, catalogue roles and RACI, certification badges, completeness scoring, harvesting, review
W3C DCAT Version 3 (Recommendation, 2024-08-22)Data Classification Policy Template (FIPS 199, ISO/IEC 27002 5.12)
FullClassification levels and criteria, FIPS 199 impact method, personal and special-category flags, labelling, handling matrix incl. AI use, discovery, declassification
FIPS 199; ISO/IEC 27002:2022 5.12, 5.13; GDPR Art. 9, 10
Operations
Data Access Request Template
StandardDataset access request: requester, purpose and lawful basis, column-level minimisation, duration, approvals, provisioning, re-certification, control mapping
GDPR Art. 5(1)(c), 25, 32; ISO/IEC 27001:2022 A.5.15, A.5.18; NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 AC-2, AC-6Data Quality Standard Template (ISO/IEC 25012, ODCS)
FullOrganisation DQ standard: ISO/IEC 25012 vocabulary, tiers, rule catalogue, severity, enforcement points, observability, scorecard, issues, waivers
ISO/IEC 25012:2008 (names); ODCS v3.2.0; OpenLineage 2-0-2Data Lineage Specification Template (OpenLineage)
FullLineage use cases, capture granularity, OpenLineage 2-0-2 events and required facets, dataset and job naming, producers, store, consumers, lineage checks
OpenLineage specification 2-0-2Data Retention and Deletion Standard Template (GDPR Art. 17, SP 800-88)
FullRetention rule method, deletion classes, standard periods, deletion per store (OLTP, Iceberg, Delta, search, logs, ML, backups), erasure propagation, evidence, sanitisation
GDPR Art. 5(1)(e), 17; NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2; ISO/IEC 27555:2021