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Data Governance Reference

Data governance policies and standards for producing data on the OSDU Data Platform. Evaluated as part of the Production Readiness Checklist.

ACL Principals — READ

The base data access model for read access.

Reference Data and Master Data

Classification ACL
Open or Equinor-Internal data.office.global.viewers

Work Product Component

Classification ACLs
Open or Equinor-Internal data.office.country.viewers/ data.office.asset.viewers

ACL Principals — WRITE

Covers application access, third-party access, restricted data, and confidential data.

These access groups are under development based on incoming use cases. A ServiceNow page is being built to receive and assess requests for application and third-party write access.

Data Risk Assessment (DRA)

All data made available to end users in OSDU must be described in the Data Inventory as data IDs. Individual data offices assess whether a data use case assessment is required.

The LRA-tag on each record is populated using information associated with its data ID. SMDA is working on automating LRA-tag assignment.

Schemas — WKS and Custom

Scenario Schema to use
A Well Known Schema (WKS) exists and meets Equinor's requirements Use the WKS
No suitable WKS exists Create a Custom Schema

Custom Schemas should be proposed to the OSDU Forum as new WKSs.

Data Quality

To be defined.

Monitoring and Dashboards

The data offices monitor compliance with access management and DRA tagging.

Reference Data by Kind and Owner

Working in a Shared Data Space

To be defined.

Logging and Traceability

To be defined.


Last update: 2026-07-09