Datenrunde
Datenrunde is a term used in German-speaking organizations to denote a collaborative session focused on data management and data sharing. It can refer to one-off meetings or recurring rounds in which data owners, data stewards, data scientists, IT staff, and business stakeholders come together to discuss data sources, quality, accessibility, and use cases.
Purpose: align on data inventory, define data quality criteria, document data lineage, establish data access and
Typical workflow: pre-meeting agenda with data catalog review, presentation of available datasets, discussion of metadata and
Variants: internal data round within a department, cross-functional data round for enterprise data governance, or external
Benefits: improved data quality and consistency, clearer ownership, faster data-driven decisions, better compliance with regulations.
Challenges: privacy and confidentiality, data ownership disputes, incomplete metadata, access control, scheduling logistics, and ensuring action-item
Relation to broader topics: data governance, data stewardship, data catalog, data lineage, and data integration.
Examples: In municipal administrations, a data round may coordinate open-data releases; in a corporate setting, it
Etymology: Daten = data, Runde = round or meeting, used in German to describe collaborative data discussions.