UI Insight Data Governance

Institutional data governance documentation for the University of Idaho's UI Insight application portfolio. Defines the adopted data modeling standard, catalogs domain-specific data models for the currently onboarded governance applications, and provides a unified vocabulary registry.

Adopted Standard

All database-backed applications adopt conventions from the AI4RA Unified Data Model, an open-source data modeling specification for research administration. While the UDM's domain scope is research administration, its naming conventions, design patterns, and controlled vocabulary approach serve as the institutional standard across all domains.

Application Portfolio

Application	Domain	Tables	Status
OpenERA	Research Administration	32	Production
UCM Daily Register	Communications	10	Production
Audit Dashboard	Internal Audit	13	Production
StratPlan Tactics	Strategic Planning	Hybrid: JSON canonical + optional insight-db projection (10 tables)	Production
ProcessMapping	Process Intelligence	24 canonical process maps + 15 workflows + optional process_maps projection	Production

AISPEG remains part of the broader UI Insight portfolio, but it is tracked here as adjacent program infrastructure rather than a governed application data model.

Documentation

Full documentation is published via MkDocs Material:

pip install mkdocs-material
mkdocs serve

Validation

Run the governance drift check locally:

python3 scripts/check_governance_drift.py

Structure

docs/
  standard/       # Adopted conventions from AI4RA-UDM
  domains/        # Per-application data model documentation
  vocabulary/     # Cross-app AllowedValue landscape
  portfolio/      # Infrastructure, deployment, AI services
  governance/     # Extension protocol and review process
catalog/          # Machine-readable model catalogs (JSON)
vocabularies/     # Federated AllowedValue seed data