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Data Hygiene

The ongoing practice of keeping records accurate, complete and consistent.

Area
Data & Systems
Also known as
data quality, data cleansing
In this area
19 terms of 257

Data hygiene covers the routine work of correcting, completing and standardising records — consistent naming, mandatory fields, retiring obsolete entries, fixing units and codes.

Treating it as a project produces a clean database that decays within months. Treating it as a recurring task with owners and exception reports is what keeps it clean.

Related terms

Deduplication

Finding and merging records that describe the same real-world thing.

Master Data Management

MDM

Governing the core reference records the whole business depends on.

Data Migration

Moving existing records into a new system in a usable state.

Single Source of Truth

One authoritative record for each fact, referenced rather than copied.

More in Data & Systems

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Data Hygiene is not just a definition here

Data & Systems runs on this vocabulary every day in AWRA OpsHub — 19 of our 257 glossary terms describe things the platform actually does.

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