Abstract: As the main body of technological innovation, universities need to do a good work in scientific data management from the perspective of data assets. As an early explorer conducting data asset management, the UK’ university has relatively mature experience. This paper first introduces the project background of the Data Audit Framework (DAF) for British universities, analyzes the implementation scope, content, procedures, and methods as a scientific data management tool, and discusses its main practices in application. On this basis, this paper summarizes the applicability characteristics of the framework from four aspects: overall planning, classification and grading, problem orientation, and continuous improvement. Finally, this paper explores the reference and implication of this framework for data asset management in Chinese universities, including establishing asset awareness from the perspective of optimizing audit environment, improving management system from the perspective of perfecting audit standard, promoting normalized management from the perspective of implementing management audit, and conducting training and propaganda from the perspective of consolidating audit condition.