ch. 1. The role of data governance in an organization / Neera Bhansali -- ch. 2. Navigating the organization to ensure data governance / Neera Bhansali -- ch. 3. Metadata management and data governance / Michael Schrader -- ch. 4. Operationalizing data quality through data governance / Julia Zhang -- ch. 5. Semantic analytics and ontologies / Oamu Takaki, N. Izumi, K. Murata and K. Hasida -- ch. 6. Data privacy, security, and compliance through data governance / Charlyn A. Hilliman -- ch. 7. Adaptive data governance : the AT-EASE change management approach / Dashratha Rama -- ch. 8. Case study : state level governance of health information exchange / Christopher B. Sullivan -- ch. 9. Bridging the gap between business and IT : an information governance perspective in the banking industry / Fernando A. Faria and Gladys E. Simpson.