[Human rights organisation]

Metadata is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data, such as the text of a message or the image itself.

There are multiple benefits of metadata management for non-profit organizations. For example, with a clear overview of existing data assets and proper descriptions of existing data fields, it becomes easier to onboard new volunteers, employees or trainees who join your non-profit.

Additionally, it saves time to start new data collaborations with other partners, as non-profits can provide clear overview on what data they have and what data they do not have, which can help to identify gaps and potential for new collaborative data projects.

And finally, clear data management helps you to have a better control over data and improve data quality by ensuring clear data definitions and reducing the risk of creating data duplicates.

Good Analytics helps this human rights organization create a solid overview of their data assets and existing data by creating data dictionaries. Here are some benefits of data dictionaries:

• provides organized, comprehensive lists of data;

• easily searchable;

• provides reporting and documentation for data across multiple programs;

• simplifies the structure for system data requirements;

• reduces data redundancy;

• maintains data integrity across multiple databases; and

• provides relationship information between different database tables.