What is DAMA - DMBOK - Data Management Best Practice

DAMA (the Data Management Association) is an international, vendor-independent, non-profit, technical and business professional association dedicated to advancing the Information Resource Management (IRM) and Data Resource Management (DRM) concepts and practices.
DAMA's vision is to support the global information professional community.

The mission of this DAMA is to provide a nonprofit and vendor-independent association where data professionals can ask for help and assistance; provide best practice resources such as DMBoK and DM Dictionary of Terms in mechanisms that produce DM professionals as much as possible; create a trusted environment for DM professionals to collaborate and communicate and enable chapters around the globe to utilize PEACE and interact with DAMA to benefit from all DM Professionals.
"Body of Knowledge" about data management is large and growing. To respond to these challenges, DAMA International provides the DAMA Guidance for Data Management of the Knowledge Board, or DAMA DMBOK, as "Definitive introduction" to data management.

DAMA DMBOK defines a standard industry view of data management functions, terminology and best practices, without specifying specific methods and techniques.

Knowledge Include:
• Data Governance (the central knowledge domain that connects all the others)
• Data Architecture Management
• Data Development
• Data Operations Management
• Data Security Management
• Reference and Master Data Management
• Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
• Document and Content Management
• Metadata Management
• Quality Management Data