DMBOK Data Management (DM) is an overarching term that describes the processes used to plan, specify, enable, create, acquire, maintain, use, archive, retrieve, control, and purge data. Data analysis and transformation are data management activities. Data Management Association (DAMA) International24 is a not-for-profit association dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices of information and data management that has produced the DMBOK.25 This includes, in its Data Integration and Interoperability knowledge area, guidance related to the transformation of data. 24 Refer to: https://www.dama.org/. 25 Refer to: https://www.dama.org/cpages/body-of-knowledge, or see References.