In recent years, companies and government agencies have come to realize that the data they use represent a significant corporate resource, whose cost calls for management every bit as rigorous as the management of human resources, money, and capital equipment. With this realization has come recognition of the importance to integrate the data that has traditionally only been available from disparate sources. An important component of this integration is the management of the "metadata" that describe, catalogue, and provide access to the various forms of underlying business data. The "metadata repository" is essential keeping track both of the various physical components of these systems, but also their semantics. What do we mean by "customer?" Where can we find information about our customers? After years of building enterprise models for the oil, pharmaceutical, banking, and other industries, Dave Hay has here not only developed a conceptual model of such a metadata repository, he has in fact created a true enterprise data model of the information technology industry itself. * A comprehensive work based on the Zachman Framework for information architecture-encompassing the Business Owner's, Architect's, and Designer's views, for all columns (data, activities, locations, people, timing, and motivation) * Provides a step-by-step description of model and is organized so that different readers can benefit from different parts * Provides a view of the world being addressed by all the techniques, methods and tools of the information processing industry (for example, object-oriented design, CASE, business process re-engineering, etc.) * Presents many concepts that are not currently being addressed by such tools - and should be
Author(s): David C. Hay
Series: The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems
Edition: 1
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 427
Front Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 10
ABOUT METADATA......Page 14
ABOUT THIS BOOK......Page 15
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 18
FOREWORD......Page 20
WHAT ARE METADATA?......Page 22
IN SEARCH OF METADATA......Page 26
THE ARCHITECTURE FRAMEWORK......Page 28
METAMODELS AND THE FRAMEWORK......Page 34
THE NOTATION: OBJECT AND ENTITY CLASSES......Page 38
LEVEL OF ABSTRACTION......Page 50
DATA AND THE ARCHITECTURE FRAMEWORK......Page 54
THE BUSINESS OWNER AND BUSINESS RULES......Page 55
ROW TWO: BUSINESS TERMS, CONCEPTS, AND FACT TYPES......Page 58
ROW THREE: THE ENTITY-RELATIONSHIP DIAGRAM......Page 86
ROW FOUR: DATA DESIGN......Page 108
ROW SIX: THE PRODUCTION SYSTEM......Page 136
ACTIVITIES AND THE ARCHITECTURE FRAMEWORK......Page 144
DEFINITIONS......Page 146
TYPES OF PROCESS MODELS......Page 148
ROW TWO: FUNCTIONS AND BUSINESS PROCESSES......Page 150
ROW THREE: PROCESSING DATA......Page 163
ROW FOUR: PROGRAM MODULES......Page 178
ROW SIX: PROGRAM INVENTORY......Page 199
ABOUT LOCATIONS......Page 204
ROW TWO: PLACING PARTIES, BUSINESS PROCESSES, AND MOTIVATION......Page 213
ROW THREE: DATA FLOW DIAGRAMS......Page 216
ROW FOUR: PLACING DATA AND PROGRAMS......Page 220
ROW SIX: SYSTEM INVENTORY......Page 224
THE PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS COLUMN......Page 230
ABOUT PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS......Page 231
ROW TWO: THE BUSINESS OWNER’S VIEW......Page 239
ROW THREE: THE ARCHITECT’S VIEW......Page 251
ROW FOUR: THE DESIGNER’S VIEW......Page 255
ROW SIX: SECURITY AND GOVERNANCE......Page 264
THE EVENTS AND TIMING COLUMN......Page 266
ROW TWO: BUSINESS EVENT TYPES......Page 268
ROW THREE: SYSTEM EVENTS......Page 273
ROW FOUR: PROGRAM EVENTS......Page 288
THE MOTIVATION COLUMN......Page 294
ROW THREE: THE ARCHITECT’S VIEW......Page 313
ROW FOUR: THE DESIGNER’S VIEW......Page 343
ROW SIX: MEASURING DATA QUALITY......Page 359
GLOSSARY......Page 364
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING......Page 412
ABOUT THE AUTHOR......Page 416
INDEX......Page 418
