| Dashboard |
The Dashboard is a tool used in each of the Profile Business, Profile Information, Profile Applications and Profile Technology documents which organises and presents the collected information and its analysis in an easy-to-read fashion. |
| Data |
The representation of facts, concepts or instructions in a formalised (consistent and agreed) manner suitable for communication, interpretation or processing by human or automatic means. Typically comprised of numbers, words or images. The format and presentation of data may vary with the context in which it is used. Data is not information until it is utilised in a particular context for a particular purpose. Examples include; Coordinates of a particular survey point; Driver licence number; Population of Queensland; Official picture of a minister in jpeg format. |
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Data Centre |
A facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems. |
| Data Instance |
A single occurrence of a data item in an Information Asset which contains all the information specific to that data item. In relational database terminology a data instance would be a single record in a table. |
| Data Manager |
Typically an officer or other service provider who is assigned to perform one or more activities associated with the day to day interpretation, management, operation and support of data. Data managers may have physical custody of the data, but are typically not assigned any formal custodial responsibilities. Data managers may provide support for data used in multiple information assets and therefore serve multiple custodians. Examples include: Librarians, Database Administrators, ICT Service Providers, Records managers, Archivists and Commercial data sources.
(See also "Custodian") |
| Decline Stage |
The penultimate stage of the asset lifecycle when, for whatever reason, use of the asset declines and the level of dependency of the agency on the asset is reduced. Strategies for management can range from keeping it running with little or no improvement, or reducing its use.
(See also "Asset Lifecycle") |
| Decommission |
A Generic Asset Management Action for an asset based on its positioning in each of the ICT Asset Assessment grid models of the Queensland Government ICT Portfolio Assessment Methodology. This action would be considered for an asset which has low current business impact, low future business value and is in poor technical condition.
(See also "Asset Management Strategy") |
| Deep Linking |
Hyper-linking to an off-site web page which is not the home page of the website being linked to, i.e. linking to internal pages of an off-site website. |
| Deliverable |
An item which the project has to create as part of the requirements, and is tangible and verifiable. It may be part of the final outcome or an intermediate element on which one or more subsequent deliverables are dependent. Another name for a deliverable is a 'product'. |
| Dependency Charts |
See "Solution Dependency Charts" |
| Dependency Matrix |
See "Solution Dependency Matrix" |
| Dependency Network |
A representation of all the inputs, outputs or resources from programs or projects, showing how they interrelate and depend on each other - treating each project as a 'black box'. That is, looking at the interdependencies between projects, rather than individual project planning. |
| Depreciation Costs |
The costs related to the decrease in value over time of an asset (i.e. for a tangible item of capital expenditure over its useful life). In calculating the Annual Estimated Costs of Operation of an item of ICT equipment, the amount by which the value of the item has decreased during the financial year must be taken into account. |
| Destruction |
Destruction is the physical disposal of records that do not have continuing value by, for example, incinerating, shredding, pulping or deletion. |
| Development Environment |
A systems area separated from the operational systems area for the purpose of developing and upgrading software systems applications. |
| Development/ Enhancement Costs |
Costs specific to a project to develop new functionality, including performance enhancements, for an application. This aspect of cost is separated from maintenance costs which relate to existing functionality. |
| Direct Connect Cabling |
Cabling from the hub/server to the floor distributor. |
| Disaster recovery planning |
A series of processes that focus only upon the recovery processes, principally in response to physical disasters that are contained within business continuity management (BCM). |
| Dis-benefit |
An unwanted result or consequence of an outcome; the negative quantification of an outcome which must be prepared for and managed. |
| Disciplinary Action |
In the event that employees and agents are proven to have breached the conditions of a policy or associated policies, disciplinary action, as outlined in the Public Service Act 1996 and an agency Code of Conduct and/or legal action and prosecution. |
| Disposal |
The term disposal has two meanings:
- The final decision concerning the fate of records. Disposal includes:
- keeping all or part of a record;
- destroying, deleting or migrating a record or part of a record; and
- abandoning, transferring, donating or selling a record or part of a record.
A program of activities to facilitate the orderly transfer of records from current office space into alternative or archival storage. |
| Disposal Authority |
A disposal authority is a document issued by the State Archivist authorising the disposal of public records. |
| Distraction |
A quadrant of the Initiative Priority Grid containing initiatives which have a score of low Attractiveness but high Achievability. The organisation should investigate these initiatives further with the intent of leveraging higher benefit. If little benefit can be identified the initiative may need to be dropped.
(See also "Initiative Priority Grid") |
| Document Management |
The management and control of documents with emphasis on their dynamic and transactional nature including indexing and retrieval, revision and version control, work flow and information content. |
| Document(s) |
Document(s) are structured units of information recorded in any format and on any medium and managed as discrete units or objects, no matter how old or recent. |
| Domain |
The categories used as part of the Queensland Government Enterprise Architecture (GEA) to provide a consistent and convenient method of logically grouping business processes, information assets, applications and technologies and ICT initiatives into meaningful and manageable areas for analysis. For example, the Technology layer of the GEA contains a domain for Desktop PCs. |
| Domain Analysis |
The process by which information used in developing systems in a domain is identified, captured and organised with the purpose of making it usable in new systems. Domain analysis focuses on supporting systematic and large-scale re-use by capturing both the commonalities and the variabilities of systems within a domain to improve the efficiency of development and maintenance of those systems.
The results of the analysis, collectively referred to as a domain model, are captured for re-use in future development of similar systems and in maintenance planning of legacy systems (ie migration strategies). |
| Domain Coverage |
The domain coverage is the extent to which the agency's information assets, applications and technologies are distributed across the domains in the relevant Portfolio Framework. For example, an agency’s Information Portfolio is likely to have subject coverage across the three information archetypes within the Information Portfolio Framework (Motivations, Moments and Entities) with a concentration of information assets classified to domains in one archetype depending on the value-discipline of the organisation. For example, an Information Portfolio for a Customer Intimate organisation would expect to see a concentration of assets relating to Entities domains such as 'Places', 'Parties', 'Products', and 'Resources'; with fewer assets classified to domains in Moments, 'Services' and 'Interactions' and Motivations, 'Controls', 'Plans' or 'Responsibilities'. |
| Domain Name |
A name given to a host computer site on the Internet.
(See also "Internet Domain") |
| Drivers |
See "Business Drivers" |
| Drop |
A quadrant of the Initiative Priority Grid containing initiatives which have a score of low Attractiveness but high Achievability. The organisation should consider dropping these initiatives from the Program of Work. These initiatives are unlikely to be viable and represent a higher risk for little return.
(See also "Asset Management Strategy") |
| Duration |
The length of time required or planned for the execution of a project activity. Measured in calendar time units - days, weeks, months. Not to be confused with effort e.g. 3 days of effort over a 5 day duration. |
| Dynamic (Content) |
Website content that is continually refreshed to provide new or updated information to attract new viewers and to keep prior viewers returning to the site. |