Datarelated

Datarelated is a term used to describe topics, artifacts, or activities connected with data. It functions as an informal compound adjective in technology writing, documentation, and project naming to signal relevance to data processing, management, or analytics. The form datarelated (without a hyphen) is less common in formal writing, where data-related is often preferred for readability; however, datarelated appears in codes, labels, and some product names.

The scope of datarelated spans data collection, storage, processing, transformation, analysis, governance, quality management, integration, privacy and security, and data-driven decision making. It also covers related disciplines such as data engineering, data science, database design, data visualization, and metadata management, as well as ethical and regulatory considerations in handling data.

In practice, datarelated is most useful as a tagging or categorization shorthand in documentation, knowledge bases, or software repositories. Because it is not standardized, its exact meaning can vary between organizations. When precision is needed, it is better to use explicit terms like data governance, data analytics, or data engineering to describe specific topics.

See also data, data science, data management, data governance, information technology.