Category 6 of 8 · 19 terms
Governance
Ownership, standards, sign-off. Who decides, who is answerable, and what happens when nobody is.
All 19 terms in this category
- AI governanceHow an organisation oversees the risks, responsibilities and performance of the AI systems it develops, buys or uses.
- AI use policyThe rules for how people in an organisation may use AI, including approved tools, prohibited material, review and disclosure.
- Centralised governanceA governance model in which one central team plans, creates, approves and publishes most of an organisation's content.
- Content governanceThe ownership, rules and decision-making that keep content accurate, consistent and maintained over time.
- Content ownerThe named person responsible for a piece of content being accurate, current and still worth having.
- Content policyThe organisation's rules for what may be published, where, by whom and under what conditions.
- Content standardsThe requirements used to judge content quality before publication and throughout its life.
- Copyright and licensingThe rights that decide who owns content, what other people may do with it and the conditions attached to reuse.
- Decentralised governanceA governance model in which separate parts of an organisation plan, create and publish their own content, with little central control.
- Editorial boardA group drawn from across an organisation that shapes content ideas into priorities, upholds standards and settles decisions that cut across teams.
- Hub and spokeA federated governance model in which a central content team sets shared standards while local teams create and manage content.
- RACIA responsibility matrix that identifies who is responsible, accountable, consulted and informed for each task or decision.
- Retention and archivingThe rules for how long content is kept and how material is preserved, retired from current use or deleted.
- Review dateThe point by which a named owner must check that a piece of content remains accurate, useful and fit to stay live.
- ROT contentMaterial that is redundant because it does not support the content strategy, out of date or too trivial to justify keeping.
- Sign-offThe formal approval required before content is published, changed or released to its audience.
- Single source of truthThe one agreed place where a piece of information is maintained, which every other copy or use defers to.
- Style guideA shared record of how an organisation writes: voice, tone, style rules and the practical guidance people need to make consistent choices.
- Subject matter expertA person with deep topic knowledge who helps make content accurate and credible.