Written by over 120 data management practitioners, this is the most impressive compilation of data management principals and best practices, ever assembled. It provides data management and IT professionals, executives, knowledge workers, educators, and researchers with a framework to manage their data and mature their information infrastructure. The equivalent of the "PMBOK" or the "BABOK", the "DAMA-DMBOK" provides information on: Data Governance; Data Architecture Management; Data Development; Database Operations Management; Data Security Management; Reference & Master Data Management; Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence Management; Document & Content Management; Meta Data Management; Data Quality Management; and Professional Development. As an authoritative introduction to data management, the goals of the "DAMA-DMBOK Guide" are: to build consensus for a generally applicable view of data management functions; to provide standard definitions for commonly used data management functions, deliverables, roles, and other terminology; to document guiding principles for data management; to present a vendor-neutral overview to commonly accepted good practices, widely adopted methods and techniques, and significant alternative approaches; to clarify the scope and boundaries of data management; and to act as a reference which guides readers to additional resources for further understanding.