References to other resources on the Web
This is a list of other Web resources that deal with subjects of interest to
information architects. This list is maintained and updated as we become aware of other
sites.
[Example Architectures] [Supporting Technologies] [Researchers and Writers]
[Papers on Architecture] [Other Interesting Sites] [Architecture Consultants and Vendors][Books on Architecture] [Conferences]
- The CALS program
- CALS (Continuous Acquisition and Life-Cycle Support) was an overall information architecture for cooperation throughout the
defense industry.
- remains a keystone of the Navy's process improvement efforts.
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- The Department of Energy's Information
Architecture
- This program has been underway since 1995. As you can see the target architecture
functionality has taken 2 1/2 years
 From Vol III Chapter 4 -
Guidance-
- Federal Enterprise Architecture
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first version of this Architecture was delivered in 1999 The current
version is maintained at FEAPMO.
- DISA — The Defense Information System Agency
- DISA has a number of large system engineering programs with a strong
architectural content such as the Defense Information Infrastructure–Common
Operating Environment and Global Command and Control Systems
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- Evolutionary Design of Complex
Systems
- A DARPA program that is looking at reducing the cost of maintaining systems as a
strategy for extending the life of military platforms such as mainframes. Still in its
formative stages the program has attracted an interesting range of projects that target
areas that should be interesting to anyone responsible for maintaining mission critical
systems in corporations.
- One interesting technology is adaptive programing, designing
frameworks for evolving applications. The Demeter site describes one technology
implemented in Java and has links to descriptions of projects employing the technology.
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- The San Francisco Project
- This is an IBM project that is setting out to create standardised business
objects to be used by third party software houses developing vertical-industry products.
The project is using Java to support platform independence. For a good summary of the
project see "IBM's San Francisco
Project" a report by D.H. Andrews group.
- The Petroleum Open Software Corporation
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A not for profit consortium that looks at issues of data sharing in the petroleum
industry. At this site you will find an
overview of the Epicentre Logical Data Model.
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http://www.august.com/epicentre
is a nice beta viewer of the epicentre entity
- MIA (Multi-vendor Integration Architecture)
- MIA was a program of NTT to ensure
- Business Objects
- Sponsored by the Object Object Management
Group
Business Objects Task Force is seeking to promote the interoperation of objects
representing business processes. If you want more information try the OOPSLA96 Business Object
Workshop home page. TI have an 80 page response (PDF format) to the Business
Objects RFI.
- Information
Systems Effectiveness
- A model for investigating the effectiveness of an organization's use of
Information Systems.
- Guidelines for
technical requirements for a Parallel Processing or clustered environment
- A set of guidelines for systems to run in the Nero environment at the University
of Oregon. Include the use of self defining data format (SDDF) to capture and share event
logs.
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- Records
Management
- The Department of Energy have a list of sites that have
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- Mark
Maier
- Mark W. Maier is a systems architect/engineer with The Aerospace
Corporation in Chantilly, VA. He is the author (with Eberhardt
Rechtin) of The Art of Systems Architecting, Second Edition, CRC Press,
2000 and many papers and articles
- John A. Zachman
- John Zachman is one of the developers of IBM's BSP methodology
and the father of
information systems architecture.
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- Jaap
Schekkerman
- Jaap Schekkerman is the founder of IFEAD
the Institute for Enterprise Architecture
Developments based in the Netherlands. he has written widely about
Enterprise Architecture and maIntains an active site with many
architecture related links.
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- A Framework for Information Systems Architecture
- The original 1987 paper by John Zachman from the IBM
System Journal
- What is Architectural Software
Development
- A paper by Larry Best of AMS
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- Enterprise
Architecture An Overview
- A paper from 1996 by Yogesh Malhotra of the BRINT
Institute that is a good introduction to the original ideas behind the
development of EA.
- Business
and Information Concepts
- A paper by Jaap Schekkerman of
IFEAD that presents another take on the high level architecture
framework.
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- Enterprise Architects, Inc.
- The consulting company founded by Seven Spewak the author of
Enterprise Architecture Planning
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- Meta
Group
- Meta have a practice area in Enterprise Architecture . Meta is the sponsor of the
DCI Enterprise Architecture conferences. They are also
sponsors of Enterprise Architecture
Community
- The Zachman Institute for
Framework Development
- Delivers training and consulting in the Zachman
Framework.
- The Pattern Repository
- A site devoted to the use of Patterns and Pattern languages in software
design.
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[All the remarks here are the personal comments of Jon Blunt unless
otherwise attributed.]
- Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models by Martin Fowler, ISBN -0-201-89542-0
- This is an excellent partner to the Design Patterns book. Fowler presents a
series of patterns that present the essence of good domain modeling
practices. The
examples are based on models developed on real projects for paying clients, yet Fowler is
able to talk about the abstract problems that are being addressed in a way that shows how
the pattern he is describing will be relevant in many domains. That said it is not clear
that the terminology in this book will enter the lexicon in quite the way the patterns of
the GoF have.
Art of Strategic
Planning for Information Technology by Bernard H. Boar
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- The Art of Systems Architecting by Eberhardt Rechtin & Mark W. Maier
ISBN 0-8493-7836-2
- This book picks up where Systems Architecting finished. In comparison this book
has a much richer set of models and talks more directly to the issues of large scale
software engineering.
Building
Enterprise Information Architecture: Reengineering Information Systems by Melissa Cook
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- Data Model
Patterns: Conventions of Thought by David Hay Dover House ISBN 0-932633-29-3
- David Hay presents avery rich view of abstract data modeling. His strong emphasis
on abstracting types gets him very close to models that derive from the object paradigm.
It is interesting to compare the models in this book with those in Fowler's book. My only
hesitation is that this book presents a level of conceptualization that goes many steps
beyond what is typical of data modelers.
- Design Patterns by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
Addison Wesley
ISBN 0-201-63361-2
- This is the most quoted book on software patterns and is trhe text that
legitamized the concept. Strongly anchored in OOP, Gamma et al (often referred
to as the
Gang of Four, or GOF for short) show how problems that appear repeatedly in design can be
addressed by distributing responsibility across cooperating objects. Most of the examples
in the book are from C++ and some of the patterns are addressing specific issues in that
family of languages.
- Enterprise
Architecture Planning: Developing a Blueprint for Data, Applications, and Technology
by Steven H. Spevak, John Wiley ISBN 0471599859
- A comprehensive approach to developing an architecture based upon the Zachman
framework. The methodology described is the basis of Spewak's consulting business
and for his DCI course.
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- Practical Steps for
Aligning Information Technology with Business Strategies by Bernard H. Boar
- I cannot say that I enthuse about this book. Boar's treatment of the existing
Information Architecture models is provocative. I tend to agree with him about the lack of intellectual
rigor they present. His proposed model however is a very complex diagramming
process that I feel becomes an obstacle to understanding the issues he presents.
- The presentation of the alignment issues themselves is stronger. The writer makes
a strong case for not ignoring the management
and reward system for IS in solving this
puzzle.
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- Pattern Languages of Program Design, edited by James O. Coplien and Douglas C.
Schmidt
ISBN 0-201-60734-4
- Based on papers presented at the first conference of Pattern Languages of
Programs (PLoP) which took place in 1994.
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- A System of Patterns by Frank Buschmann, Regine Meunier, Hans Rohnert, Peter
Sommerlad and Michael Stal
ISBN 0-471-95869-7
- Pattern-oriented software architecture for large scale systems. This book
attempts to do for systems what Gamma et al. do for components and interfaces.
Unfortunately for me something gets lost. The material here seems less to be patterns than
archetypes. I think it is a question of scale. Just reading the GoF book I can immediately
see that the issues addressed in that book will occur on almost any system. With A
System of Patterns, it is interesting to know what a Blackboard system is, but maybe
I will never work on a system that needs that technique.
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- The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander, OUP, ISBN 0-19-502402-8
A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander, OUP
- The books that started the whole pattern movement. These books describe
Alexander's view of the principles upon which architecture and regional planning should be
based. A Pattern Language is interesting because it describes a hierarchy
of
patterns that cover magnitudes of scope from regional planning to room design. Nothing in
the software pattern space yet approaches the audacity of this.
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- Enterprise Architecture Conference
- This program is offered several times a year in the US and Canada. Check at
the DCI site for details of the next scheduled event.
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