San Francisco DAMA Newsletter |
Data Management Association, Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
268 Bush Street, Suite 2523
San Francisco, CA 94104
http://www.sfdama.org/
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OCTOBER 2006 MEETING
Wednesday, October 4, 2006 at:
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| Genentech, INC
Building 83
611 Gateway Blvd.
South San Francisco, CA 94080
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AGENDA
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| 8:30
- 9:00 |
Continental Breakfast
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| 9:00
- 9:15 |
Welcoming Remarks
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| 9:15
- 10:15 |
Leveraging Metadata for Information Classification
Jason Tiret, Embarcadero Technologies
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| 10:15
- 10:30 |
Break
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| 10:30
- 11:45 |
Continued Presentation
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| 11:45
- 12:00 |
Questions and Wrap-Up
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| 12:00
- Lunch |
Restaurant (to be announced at the meeting)
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"They
are able because they think they are able."
-Virgil |
| Information
Resource Management: Setting Standards for Excellence
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DIRECTIONS
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Directions To This Month's Meeting:
Genentech, Inc.
Building 83
611 Gateway Blvd.
South San Francisco, CA 94080
Genentech is located North of the San Francisco International Airport, off Highway 101.
Driving From the East Bay:
Take Highway 580W towards San Francisco
Take I-80W to San Francisco.
I-80 becomes 101 South to San Jose
Take the OYSTER POINT BLVD EAST exit - EXIT 425B
Turn Slight Right onto Oyster Point Blvd. (< 0.1M)
Turn Right onto Gateway Boulevard (0.3M)
Driving From the Peninsula:
Take 101 North towards SFO airport
Take the exit towards Oyster Point Boulevard (after the SFO airport)
Turn Slight Left (< 0.1M)
Turn Right onto Oyster Point Boulevard (0.1M)
Turn Right onto Gateway Boulevard (0.3M)
BART:
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Genentech runs a shuttle from the Glen Park station.
You can board the shuttle on the north side of the station (Bosworth Street).
In the morning, the shuttle leaves the station at 7:25, 7:40, 7:55, 8:25, 8:40, 8:55, 9:25, 9:40 and 9:55.
It should arrive at 611 Gateway Blvd (Genentech Building 83) about 21 minutes later.
For those exiting at the South
San Francisco station, board the BART South San Francisco shuttle
at BART Shuttle Stop #6.
They leave the BART
station at 7:10, 7:40, 8:10, 8:40, 9:10 and 9:40, and arrive at
Building 83 (611 Gateway Blvd) about 11 minutes later.
NOTE:
The Genentech shuttle bus to BART has a placard announcing 'Genentech'
and the Genentech campus buildings it serves. This is posted on
the window next to the stairs that go into the bus, but not always
visible. Please ask if you do not see a sign. The shuttle for the
return trip does not start until 3:30 pm.
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Leveraging Metadata for Information Classification
Jason Tiret
Abstract
Leveraging Metadata for Information Classification
Is your data at risk and you don't even know it? Rapidly multiplying
databases, sparse documentation, and geographic distribution may mean
that you have sensitive customer or employee information sitting in an
unsecured and vulnerable database that you don't even know about. To
compound the problem, privacy-related regulations such as HIPAA, GLBA,
and PCI specifically require you to identify the regulated data and to
provide employees with instructions on how to handle that data.
But the question is - how can you actually get a handle on the data you
keep so that you assess risk, secure the information, and communicate
appropriate usage policies? Our new webinar, "Leveraging Metadata for
Information Classification" will walk through how you can use metadata
and modeling to create a roadmap for your corporate data assets that
helps you understand and label your corporate data. Specifically, we
will cover:
- Articulating a corporate data classification
- Understanding data classification and regulations
- Applying classification labels to an enterprise data architecture
Speaker's Biography's:
Jason Tiret has over seven years experience with Embarcadero Technologies related to data modeling, metadata and database management. He has spoken at numerous seminars, and to many companies, about data architecture and the application of Embarcadero solutions. Prior to his work with Embarcadero Technologies, Jason received his B.S. degree in Mathematics from University of California, Davis.
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Dear members,
October is going to be a very busy month for us. In addition
to our regular meeting, we have Peter Aiken’s two day workshop. Please sign up
early as the number of seats is limited. DAMAday is coming up soon too, and we
have three great speakers lined up for you. We will maintain the one track
format.
Please note there will be no meeting in November due to the
workshop in October and some may attend the TDWI world conference instead -
DAMA members get 10% off the registration fee.
Continuing on the drawing I introduced in the August
newsletter and expanded upon on the September newsletter (see below for quick
reference and see the newsletters for a complete introduction), the
“Agent” box corresponds to the initiator or the observer. The Agent can be a
person or an event. An Agent can start, change, or inhibit processes. An agent
can change and destroy data. Processes may exist that enable agents to let
certain actions happen while inhibiting others. Data may exist about the nature
of these agents, their past actions, what they are allowed to affect, etc.
The “Rule/Standard” box represents the business rules and
the specified norms or standards, usually documented (data) and applied through
processes and procedures. There are, of course procedures on how these business
rules are created and added, changed or replaced, all which apply rules and
standards on rules and standards – remember the recursive loop – that are also
documented as data. A data model is a representation of data oriented business
and technical rules.
A business rules repository can store business rules related
to data/information, procedures and processes, and rules and standards, in a
database for which both logical and physical data models have been specified
and for which business rule CRUD processes have been modeled and codified
according to certain business and technical rules. That recursivity again.
Did I miss anything?
I'll see you at the meetings.
François Cartier President,
SF DAMA
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OTHER RESOURCES
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2006
SF DAMA Meetings Schedule
(All meetings start at 8:30 a.m. and are at the following location
unless otherwise noted.)
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| Date |
Topic
/ Presenter / Location |
| October 4, 2006 |
Leveraging Metadata for Information Classification
Jason Tiret, Embarcadero Technologies
Genentech, 611 Gateway Blvd, South San Francisco
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October 10-11, 2006
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XML and Data Management Workshop
Peter Aiken
Informatica - Redwood City
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| November 1, 2006 |
No Meeting Scheduled |
| December
11, 2006 |
SF-DAMA
Day |
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