Pre-Reading
Materials
(Additional pre-reading
materials will be provided as they become available.)
updated 8/28/02
T7: Developing a Master
Plan for Managing Your Ever-Growing Data
– Daniel Linstedt, Core Integration Partners
(i) What Is VLDB?
Very Large Databases
by Dan Linstedt
This is the first part of a three part series on Very Large
Databases. The paper is divided into six chapters and two chapters will be
included with each part.
http://www.tdan.com/i018hy03.htm
(ii) Understanding
Requirements of Large Data-Intensive Applications
by Neeraja Akula, Vijay Saradhi
http://www.datawarehouse.com/iknowledge/articles/article.cfm?ContentID=2932
Additional Suggested Links:
www.wintercorp.com
T8: OMG’s Model Driven
Architecture
– Jon Siegel, Object Management Group
The web site has dozens of
articles and references on its Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and other OMG
standards. The MDA “home page”
is at http://www.omg.org/mda/ and serves
as a good starting point for novices, including an Executive Overview and FAQ
section. Additional advanced papers
are also available from this page.
T9: Agile Modeling to
Agile Data
– Scott Ambler
The Agile Modeling home page is http://www.agilemodeling.com. You can obtain a general intro to the topic on this page, and also link to a truly comprehensive set of in-depth articles, essays and other resources. There’s even Chinese and Japanese translations of some material!
Data Vault Overview: The Next Evolution In Data
Modeling
– Dan
Linstedt
This paper provides a
detailed discussion of a new (and patent-pending) physical modeling technique
called the Data Vault™. This is a
highly technical paper and the author recommends it for an audience of data
modelers, data architects and database administrators (not for business
analysts, project managers, or mainframe programmers). He also recommends a
pre-requisite knowledge of data modeling terms such as table, relationship,
parent, child, key (primary/foreign), dimension and fact.
http://www.tdan.com/i021hy01.htm
Database Refactoring
– Scott Ambler
Scott has posted the
following articles on his Agile Data web site as an introduction to database
refactoring. He invites comments to both articles.
(i) The Process of Database
Refactoring (http://www.agiledata.org/essays/databaseRefactoring.html)
which describes how to go about evolving your database schema in an iterative
and incremental manner. Database Refactoring (in the author’s opinion)
is an enabling technique for data professionals to work effectively with
application developers who are taking an agile approach to software development
(such as XP, Scrum, DSDM).
(ii) Catalog of Database
Refactorings (http://www.agiledata.org/essays/databaseRefactoringCatalog.html).
This is a table summarizing database refactorings.
Information Quality
through Semantic Models
–
Joshua Fox
Central
Information Models for Data Transformation
by Joshua Fox, Unicorn Solutions
This article is scheduled to appear in EAI Journal soon. It explains a new approach to data transformation based on the notion of a central information model--a kind of "semantic hub" -- to provide data semantics and eliminate classic EAI point-to-point analysis and mapping.
Analytical API Update
– Seth Grimes
XML for
Analysis Decoded
by Seth Grimes
XML for Analysis is
supposed to provide a single API for querying multiple data sources, but how
successful is it in accomplishing this objective?
This short article discusses XML for Analysis,
it’s “competitors”, and where the analytical API market is heading.
http://www.intelligententerprise.com/010831/413decision1_1.shtml
The Semantic Web
– Brett Champlin
(i) The
Semantic Web: A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will
unleash a revolution of new possibilities
by Tim Berners-Lee, James
Hendler and Ora Lassila, Scientific American, May 2001
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0004
(ii) The Semantic Web: An Introduction
http://infomesh.net/2001/swintro/
(iii) The Semantic Argument
Web
by David Weinberg
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/swiftkick/column.html?ArticleID=421
Additional Links
The Semantic Web Home Page at W3C:
Current
Controversies in Data Modeling
– Brett Champlin
The Future of Data Modeling
by Ben Ettlinger
http://www.dmreview.com/master.cfm?NavID=198&EdID=4840
– David Hay
(i) Advanced Data Model
Patterns
by David Hay
http://www.essentialstrategies.com/publications/modeling/advanceddm.htm
(ii) UML Misses the Boat
by David Hay
http://www.essentialstrategies.com/publications/objects/umleco.htm
– Karen Lopez, InfoAdvisors
The InfoAdvisors Data Model
Group (run by Karen) always contains a number of ongoing and interesting
discussions about current data modeling issues.
http://www.infoadvisors.com/datamodellist.htm
Good Data to Great Data:
Case Studies in Advanced Enterprise Data Management
– Robert Seiner, KIK
Consulting & TDAN.com
The IRM Test: How did
"IT" Get This Way? A
"Self-Help" Test
by Robert Seiner, KIK Consulting
A DM Review article by
speaker Bob Seiner, which offers some of the questions that you can ask yourself
about your company to give you a clearer understanding of why you are having
problems managing information assets. Bob
writes it as a light-hearted piece, and doesn’t but we all recognize the truth
that lies within.
http://www.dmreview.com/master.cfm?navID=193&EdID=4816
XML Tools: Xquery
– Denise Draper, Nimble
Technology
XML has received a lot of
momentum as a language for data interchange and integration, and support for
XQuery has already been announced by several large vendors.
XQuery will soon be one of the standard tools available for application
development and integration. Denise
suggest the following as good references on XQuery.
(i) XQuery definition
(draft):
http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/ (spec
of the language, still in draft form)
(ii) XQuery use cases
(draft):
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlquery-use-cases
(intro to the language by example, still in draft form)
(iii) List of and links to
vendors who have advertised support for XQuery:
http://www.w3.org/XML/Query#products
Additional Links Info:
Denise’s favorite XML Web
site:
http://xml.startkabel.nl (many
useful pointers to information about XML programming)
Real-Time Integration
and Analytics
–
Seth Grimes, John Ko, & Ron Agresta
Considerations for
Building a Real-time Data Warehouse
by DataMirror Corporation
This White Paper does a good job at outlining the business and system considerations for real-time data warehousing. It's mostly an "easy read", and though it comes from a vendor, it manages to avoid obvious bias (at least for the most part!).
Zero Latency Data
Infrastructures
by Dorinne Hoss
This article, published on
dataWarehouse.com, provides a nice overview of a broad range of issues
associated with creating a real-time data infrastructure.
http://www.datawarehouse.com/iknowledge/articles/article.cfm?ContentID=1734
Sharing Live
Application Data Across the Internet: A New Concept in Data Storage
Harry Ellis, British Army
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