Re: Data Administration - Anyone Interested?

dstobart@shore.net (The BEACON Project) wrote: 'There seems to be a lack of attention in the news groups to data 'administration as opposed to database administration. Topics such as ' Logical Data Modeling ' Warehousing ' Repositories ' Strategies for modeling distributed data ' and others 'Does anyone else out there feel that there needs to be a greater focus on 'these subjects? 'It maybe that this is because news groups are generally visited most by 'techies rather than business side people. I represent the Data 'Administration Management Association (DAMA) and am thinking about 'starting a news group on how to manage the data resource. Anyone 'interested? 'Diana M. Stobart 'Vice President 'DAMA - Greater Boston Chapter Yes, that would be great. I joined this newsgroup hoping to get information about data dictionaries and repositories. The dicussions here though are about databases and not data management. In the last four years we have set up the use of a data dictionary to develop new applications. We have also tried (and sometimes failed) to integrate legacy data into our dictionary. It would be interesting to share information about data administration. Thanks