GRC Data Intelligence Online Glossary

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This glossary, built and maintained by Graham Rhind, has been created to bring together definitions of terms in the follow subject areas:

 

Data Quality, Information Quality, Direct Marketing, Postal Addressing, Database Management, Data Governance, Localisation/Localization, Data Warehousing, Data Cleansing, Information Management

 

This glossary is a work in progress.  A new version is uploaded approximately weekly.  Please contact us with any new definitions or sources you may have come across and would like to see included.

 

Enter Glossary (allows search, requires Java enabled - see below)

 

Alternative layout  (no search, simple HTML, no Java required)

 

The glossary currently contains 4936 defined words and phrases. Approximately 50 new definitions are added and uploaded weekly.

 

Each glossary entry includes the definition, the source (with URL if applicable), the date that the definition was added to the glossary and, because definitions depend on viewpoint, tags such as [Data Quality], [Data Governance] and [Postal]

 

Use the buttons to the left to navigate around our sister site at GRC Data Intelligence.

 

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Using the glossary

 

• You need to have Java enabled to use the glossary
• Most definitions contain the definition, the author, the source of the information, and the date added to the glossary
• The easiest way to find a definition is using the search field to the bottom left of the navigation pane:



• Use the up arrow at the top left to hide the navigation pane , use the down arrow to restore it .
• Chapter names followed by an ellipsis (...) have sub-chapters:



• Use the scroll bar to reveal chapters when there are too many to show on the navigation screen:

• Use the history bar to navigate quickly to recently viewed definitions:

• Hover over a topic with your cursor to view the scope of the available definitions:

 

 

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