COMDTINST 5200.7A governs Coast Guard enterprise data management policy, including authority, roles, responsibilities, and compliance.
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It addresses authoritative and trusted data, data architecture, metadata, data sharing, governance, security, privacy, and information quality. It requires data to be tagged with metadata and authoritative sources to be identified, verified, documented, and registered.
Applies to: All Coast Guard unit commanders, commanding officers, officers-in-charge, deputy/assistant commandants, and chiefs of headquarters staff elements shall comply with the provisions of this policy.
All Coast Guard unit commanders, commanding officers, officers-in-charge, deputy/assistant commandants, and chiefs of headquarters staff elements shall comply with the provisions of this policy. (paragraph 2)
All Operational, Mission Support, and other data will be tagged with metadata to facilitate data identification, security, access control, sharing and enterprise management.
Sources of data that are to be designated as Authoritative and Trusted Data Sources (ATDS) shall be identified, verified, and documented in the Authoritative and Trusted Data Source Questionnaire and registered in the Enterprise System Inventory (ESI) by the Information Owner or Data Steward designated by the Information Owner.
All CG metadata (including ATDS designation) along with data models, Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs), tables, fields shall be identified and stored in the CG Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC).
Failure to comply with the requirements of this policy may result in unfavorable consideration in the decision-making including, but not limited to Acquisition Decision Events (ADEs), procurements, resources, and SELC Phase Exit Reviews or no access to or disconnection from the DoD Information Network (DoDIN including CGONE).