Data administration

Data Administration is, in Computing Science, the administration of the organisation of data, usually as stored in Databases under some Database Management System or alternative systems such as electronic spreadsheets.

In many smaller organisations, Data Administration is not performed at all, or is but a small parcel of the Database Administrator’s work.

Data Administration ideally begins at software conception, ensuring there is a data dictionary to help keeping consistency and avoid redundancy and modelling the database so as to make it logical and usable, by means of the normalisation technique.

Quite often such modelling is mistaken as diagramming, because of the prevalence of entity-relationship diagrams.