This document discusses information governance and its implementation in SharePoint. It defines information governance as the set of policies, procedures, processes, roles, metrics, and controls used to manage information to support regulatory, legal, risk, and operational requirements. It recommends establishing a governing body and developing initial principles, goals, an educational strategy, and ongoing measurement plans. It also provides methods for governing content types, document owners, retention schedules, change management, and permissions. Finally, it discusses how to govern sites, asset classification, lifecycles, branding, information architecture, records management, content types, approval, and information management policies in SharePoint.
2. Information
Governance
It is the set of policies, procedures,
processes, roles, metrics, and controls
implemented to manage information.
Supports regulatory, legal, risk, and
operational requirements.
Should be based on a company specific
requirements.
Consider governing body executives, IT,
division leaders, compliance, legal.
Develop initial principles and goals
metadata, templates, guidelines, compliance,
training, branding. Be clear about roles.
Develop educational strategy formal and
outgoing.
Develop an ongoing plan and measure
against original principals and goals.
Top-down support is critical.
Define procedures with users feedback.
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3. Information
Governance
Methods
Content types determine what you will upload
into your CMS;
Document owners determine and enter into
metadata;
Retention schedule define by document type and
set up workflow to alert the administrator;
Change management and control no changes
without approval;
Naming conventions for each document type;
Approval and publishing documents to verify the
content before it has been published;
Time for checked out documents define and
enforce;
Permissions set up users group and assign them
to document types.
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4. Information
Governance in
SharePoint
What to govern:
Sites growth of server, size of uploaded
documents and their longevity, block some file
types, for example exe files.
Asset classification develop classification for
your site collections and sites and associate
business value to them.
Lifecycle management identify active and
unused sites.
Branding and templates choose templates.
Information architecture - metadata, taxonomy,
navigation.
Records management retention schedule.
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5. Information
Governance in
SharePoint
Content types consistent metadata,
workflows, policies.
Content approval control the publication of
content.
Information management policies:
Auditing logs events such as editing and
viewing documents.
Expiration set a content type to expire on
a certain date and a workflow.
Labeling searchable text, specifies a label
to associate with a type of document or list
item based on metadata.
Barcode - to track a physical copy of a
document.
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