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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.
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We would like to thank Frans Decuyper (FMET) and Guido Dedene (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) for their support and input.
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De Leenheer, P., de Moor, A., Christiaens, S. (2011). SBVR-Driven Information Governance: A Case Study in the Flemish Public Administration. In: Elçi, A., Koné, M.T., Orgun, M.A. (eds) Semantic Agent Systems. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 344. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18308-9_4
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