Data Literacy ~ Data Management

Data Management

Consistently describing the core entities of an organization across different views/users of the same data, including: customers, prospects, citizens, suppliers, sites, hierarchies, chart of accounts etc. (Gartner, 2019, Toolkit).

The knowledge and skills required to navigate internal and external systems to locate, access, organize, protect and store data related to the organization's needs (Statistics Canada, 2020).

VAULTIS, short for data that is visible, accessible, understandable, linked, trustworthy, interoperable and secure. (Houston, AMCOM, 2021)

Relevant Links

These links are typically articles defining data literacy that include this theme in their definition.


L. Heeley, S. Wilkinson, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Gov.uk, 2018;, Nancy Law, David Woo, Jimmy de la Torre, Gary Wong, UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2018;, Open Data Institute, 2020;, Alan D. Duncan, Donna Medeiros, Aron Clarke, Sally Parker, Gartner, 2021;, Gartner, 2019;, Learn2Analyze, 2017;, Chantel Ridsdale, et.al., Dalhousie University, 2015;, Databilities, Data to the People, 2020;, Annika Wolff, Daniel Gooch, Jose J. Cavero Montaner, Umar Rashid, Gerd Kortuem, 2016;, Andreas Grillenberger, Ralf Romeike, Proceedings of the 13th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, 2018;, Edith Gummer, Ellen B. Mandinach, Teachers College Record, 2015;, Kerensa Houston, U.S. Army, 2021;

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