Re: Data Administration - Anyone Interested?

The BEACON Project (dstobart@shore.net) 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? Definitely. I have been involved in efforts to build standard data models for data exchange in the CDIF organization. We have been very successful at generating data models that are in effect meta-models for repositories. Check out http://www.io.org/~cdif/. Some more exposure for this stuff would be very worthwhile also considering the fact that OMG has a repository RFI out on the streets... : 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 -- Adrian Blakey root@uniblab.com