The Data Management Body of Knowledge DAMADMBOK2 presents a comprehensive view of the challenges complexities and value of effective data management. Todayamprsquos organizations recognize that managing data is central to their success. They recognize data has value and they want to leverage that value. As our ability and desire to create and exploit data has increased so too has the need for reliable data management practices.The second edition of DAMA Internationalamprsquos Guide to the Data Management Body of Knowledge updates and augments the highly successful DMBOK1. An accessible authoritative reference book written by leading thinkers in the field and extensively reviewed by DAMA members DMBOK2 brings together materials that comprehensively describe the challenges of data management and how to meet them byDefining a set of guiding principles for data management and describing how these principles can be applied within data management functional areas.Providing a functional framework for the implementation of enterprise data management practices including widely adopted practices methods and techniques functions roles deliverables and metrics.Establishing a common vocabulary for data management concepts and serving as the basis for best practices for data management professionals.DAMADMBOK2 provides data management and IT professionals executives knowledge workers educators and researchers with a framework to manage their data and mature their information infrastructure based on these principlesData is an asset with unique propertiesThe value of data can be and should be expressed in economic termsampnbspManaging data means managing the quality of dataIt takes metadata to manage dataIt takes planning to manage dataData management is crossfunctional and requires a range of skills and expertiseData management requires an enterprise perspectiveData management must account for a range of perspectivesData management is data lifecycle managementDifferent types of da