Guidance

Essential Shared Data Assets and Data Ownership in Government

Policy and supporting guidance for departments on Essential Shared Data Assets and Data Ownership in Government.

From:
Central Digital and Data Office
Published
28 November 2023
Last updated
26 April 2024 — See all updates

Documents

Essential Shared Data Assets (ESDAs) Policy (PDF)

PDF, 249 KB, 10 pages

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Essential Shared Data Assets (ESDAs) Policy (HTML)

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Essential Shared Data Assets (ESDAs) - Guidance for departments (PDF)

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Essential Shared Data Assets (ESDAs) - Guidance for departments (HTML)

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Record key information about Essential Shared Data Assets

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Template for Essential Shared Data Assets Final Returns

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Data Ownership in Government (PDF)

PDF, 384 KB, 16 pages

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Data Ownership in Government (HTML)

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Information Sheet for Data Owners

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Essential Shared Data Assets (ESDA) policy

Policy which defines and sets out the standardised approach the government should follow to identify cross government data assets. 

Essential Shared Data Assets (ESDAs) - Guidance for departments

Detailed guidance for Departments on the processes they should follow and identifying and reporting ESDAs back to CDDO. 

Guidance on how to record Key information about Essential Shared Data Assets

Metadata requirements for capturing and reporting ESDAs back to CDDO.

Template for Essential Shared Data Assets Final Returns

A template for departments to provide their final returns of metadata about their Essential Shared Data Assets. Metadata requirements are drawn from the UK Cross-Government Metadata Exchange Model. Departments are encouraged to provide the full metadata set out within the table but returns will be accepted if only the fields flagged green are provided.

Data Ownership in Government

Roles and accountabilities for those people responsible for the management of Essential Shared Data Assets.

Information Sheet for Data Owners

Information for data owners in order to designate, and agree the metadata for their department’s Essential Shared Data Assets.

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data-standards-authority@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk 

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Updates to this page

Published 28 November 2023
Last updated 26 April 2024 + show all updates

  1. Replaced the document: Template for Essential Shared Data Assets Final Returns, with the latest version. Added a new document: Information Sheet for Data Owners

  2. Added the document: Template for Essential Shared Data Asset Initial Returns

  3. First published.

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