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Data Governance Structure
RCW 43.41.400 requires ERDC to perform a number of coordination and collaboration activities. In the current governance system, coordination and communication is extremely important and it requires all participants to make this a priority. No committee works in isolation. This chart displays the committees facilitated by ERDC and their relationships.
Research and Reporting Coordination Committee
Members are staff who interact with agency decision-makers, stakeholders and research questions. They make recommendations as to the list of critical questions and coordinate with the other committees to make sure the data needed to answer the questions were available. The people on this committee would also be the policy matter experts that would be commenting on data requests coming into the ERDC. This committee updates policies and procedures created around data sharing. The majority of the work will be providing advice to data requestors.
Data Stewards Committee
Members are directly familiar with the data variables from their agency used in research. The data experts from the agencies would meet to ensure consistent data definitions and make recommendations regarding who should collect data needed for new questions. In the future, this committee may create policies and procedures related to data stewardship in a P-20 system.
Data Custodians Committee
Members are responsible for the technical delivery of data to and from the warehouse. The technical experts from the agencies would coordinate on how the data is exchanged between their agency and the data warehouse and how the data are stored. In the future, this committee may create policies and procedures related to individual agency’s data systems and how they interact with a P-20 system.
