ADAGIO (Alarcos’ DAta Governance framework and systems generatIOn)

Financed by: JCCM, Regional Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and ERDF Funds.

Total Amount: 119482 €

Identifier Code: SBPLY/21/180501/000061

Data is a vital element of economic development as it enables greater efficiency in the use of resources and an increase in the productivity of organisations. According to the EU's European Data Strategy, a Single European Data Space will be established by 2030, fostering an ecosystem with new products and services based on the use, sharing and exploitation of data. To achieve this horizon, the European Data Strategy calls for the need to improve the data governance structures or systems of organisations so that, through policies and guidelines agreed at a high level, the objectives of the organisational strategy can be achieved and regulatory aspects both generic (such as the European GPDR or Data Governance Act, or the Spanish ENS or ENI) and sector-specific aspects (such as Solvency II for the insurance sector, or Basel for the financial sector) can be satisfied. In any case, the establishment of data governance presents numerous challenges that make its implementation a complex task due to the enormous diversity of organisations and contexts. There are a limited number of approaches to data governance that suffer from several problems: (1) they are proprietary, usually with very high licensing costs; (2) they are designed for large organisations in specific sectors - such as banking - and often require the deployment of a considerable organisational infrastructure not always within the reach of smaller companies; (3) they are overly generic, usually very complex, and with large differences between them conceptually, which makes their implementation difficult; (4) there is no consensus on how they should be implemented; (5) there is no consensus on how they should be implemented; (6) there is no consensus on how they should be implemented; and (7) there is no consensus on how they should be implemented; (4) there is no consensus on the areas of action that fall under the umbrella of data governance; (5) except for very few proposals, in general, these frameworks do not address the idea of a data governance system, nor the components it should have, nor do they provide rigorous and systematic methodological aspects for its creation. These problems result in organisations implementing their data governance ad hoc, making them difficult to maintain and not very interoperable with those of other organisations. Therefore, we believe it is necessary to investigate the definition of a reference framework for the creation and optimisation of data governance systems. This framework would include three lines of action: (1) the identification of the elements necessary to deploy a data governance system; (2) the definition of a process for the creation and optimisation of the data governance system taking into account the reality of the organisations where it will be implemented, and (3) the development of a technological infrastructure to support this process.

Main Researchers:

Other Researchers:

3) Mario Piattini Velthuis
4) Moisés Rodríguez Monje
5) Javier Verdugo Lara
6) Ana María Fernández Saéz
7) Jesús Ramón Oviedo Lama
8) Fernando Gualo Cejudo
9) Alberto Freitas
10) Julio Souza