Metatopia Conference 2007

Data Quality: Prerequisite for Data Sharing

Bonnie O'Neil Yazmin Rowe Bonnie O'Neil
Sr. Principal Data Architect
Project Performance Corporation

Yazmin Rowe
Data Architect
Technology In Motion, Inc.


Tuesday 11:00am - 12:00pm

Level: Data Management - Intermediate

At a government bureau focusing on Law Enforcement, data sharing is an imperative for the Bureau to accomplish its mission and to ferret out the “bad guys”. Other government agencies and even within the Bureau itself need the data created by the Bureau to fight crime together. However, the Bureau began to examine the data to figure out what it would share and discovered it wasn’t even sure what the data represented in certain circumstances, let alone if it was in good enough shape to share. Therefore, we embarked on a Data Quality initiative that was well-received. This presentation involves a Case Study about Data Quality and Data Sharing and will cover the following topics:

  • Top Down/Bottom up Approach to Understanding Data
  • The importance of definitions to Data Quality
  • Involving business people and Data Stewardship
Speaker Bio
Bonnie O'Neil is Senior Technical Consultant/Senior Principal Data Architect at Project Performance Corporation, and is an internationally recognized expert on data quality, glossaries, business metadata, data architecture, business rules and the emerging field of semantics and Web 2.0. She is a regular speaker at many conferences, and has also been a workshop leader at Meta Data/DAMA Conference, Oracle ODTUG, and the Business Rules Forum; she was the keynote speaker at an international conference on Data Quality in South Africa. She has been involved in strategic data management projects in both Fortune 500 companies and government agencies, and her expertise includes specialized skills such as data quality, profiling, semantic/data integration and migration. She is the author of three books including Business Metadata (due out late summer 2007) and over 40 articles and technical white papers. On a personal note, she is the mother of movie star Chris O’Neil, starring in The Last Mimzy.

Yazmin Rowe has more than 25 years of IT experience, including senior positions in consulting and software development. She is a Data Architect at Technology In Motion, Inc, and is currently engaged with Project Performance Corporation in the development and tactical implementation of an Enterprise Data Quality Framework at ATF.
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