Term Definition: Data Object
Main Description

Data Objects are considered Artifacts because they do not have any direct effect on the Sequence Flow or Message Flow of the Process, but they do provide information about what activities require to be performed and/or what they produce.

This term can be found in the OMG  Business Process Modeling Notation, V1.2 (Beta 3)  specification http://www.omg.org/docs/dtc/08-02-07.pdf