CDI and MDM are Broken, Part 1
This article examines the current state of solutions for the rapidly growing area of CDI and MDM. He sets the…
Data Articles
Semantics in Metadata Repository and Systems Integration Efforts
This article looks at the use of a central metadata repository to support system development efforts and shows how sound…
Information Systems Development
This article presents a 9-step approach for information systems development.
Enterprise Architecture: Connect-Dots for Adults, Part 2
This article, the second in a series, discusses what items could be contained in the enterprise architecture and touches briefly…
Enterprise Architecture: Connect-the-Dots for Adults, Part 1
Developing an enterprise architecture can be viewed as connect-the-dots for adults. However, in doing so, all you get is a…
Why Data Models Do Not Work: The Role of Reference Data
There is an urgent need to acknowledge the limitations of data models and find a way to bridge the logical-physical…
The Socialization of Knowledge
This article is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, Business Metadata, to be published on or about September, 2007, co-authored…
The Data Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Chapter 6
Published in TDAN.com July 2007 Editor’s note: Following are links to all of the articles in this series: Part 1,…
Data Quality and the Project Life Cycle
Data quality tasks should be integrated into the project plan, and careful planning at the beginning of a project will…
Terminology, Semantics and the Meanings of Names
Basic terminology principles help to understand how naming conventions can be formed and then applied to relate the meanings of…