Practice data contract governance vocabulary: contract registry, contract owner, deprecating fields, data steward role, and governance team sign-off language.
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What is a 'contract registry' in a data governance context?
A contract registry is a centralized store — often a data catalog feature — that tracks all active data contracts, who owns them, their current version, and which teams are consumers.
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The 'contract ___ ' is the person accountable for keeping a data contract accurate and up to date.
The contract owner is the accountable party — typically someone from the producing team — responsible for the contract's accuracy, versioning, and lifecycle management.
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What does 'deprecating a contract field' mean?
Deprecating a contract field means announcing that it will be removed in a future version. Consumers see a deprecation notice and have a defined grace period to stop depending on that field.
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What is the role of a 'data steward' in the data contract process?
A data steward is a business-side domain expert responsible for the meaning, quality, and governance of data in their domain. In data contracts, they often review and approve contract definitions.
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A team says 'we need ___ from the data governance team before merging this contract change.' What word fits?
'Sign-off' is standard governance language meaning formal approval. Requiring sign-off from a data governance team or data steward before contract changes go live is a common governance control.