Data InventoryIn progress
How to find out what data you have and find the data you are missing
A book about data inventory: finding and describing data, that is, which datasets exist, where they are kept, who owns them, on what grounds they are collected, whether they are accessible and how good they are. It follows two approaches: taking stock of an organization's own data and finding the data a task needs, including data held by others. It covers the seven steps from a goal to a maintained data registry, where to look for government, public and commercial data, description standards, tools and the practice of twelve countries, with templates and checklists.
Contents
- What data inventory is
- Approaches and methods
- How to run an inventory
- Where to look for data
- Standards and international experience
- Tools
- Country practices
- Practices
- Appendices
How to cite
Begtin, I. (2026). Data Inventory: How to find out what data you have and find the data you are missing (October 2026 draft ed.). In Russian. https://datainventory.begtin.tech/
@book{begtin2026datainventory,
author = {Begtin, Ivan},
title = {Data Inventory: How to find out what data you have and find the data you are missing},
year = {2026},
edition = {October 2026 draft},
url = {https://datainventory.begtin.tech/},
language = {russian},
note = {In Russian. CC BY 4.0}
}