Definition: A model that defines the meaning of things that are important to the business process and the relationships between those meanings. Commentary: Semantic relationships express the relatedne...

Definition: ISO 15836:2008 (Dublin Core) establishes a standard for cross-domain resource description, known as the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set. This defines the elements typically used in the co...

Definition: The function that enables consistent and standardized access, governance and control to an organization’s information assets. Commentary: Information architecture is one of the subco...

Definition: A data model that is based on the data concepts that has all data attributes and relationships required to support the business process independent of any particular technology or solution...

Definition: Entities, relationships, and attributes which are identified as critical, shared across the enterprise, and foundational to key business processes and application systems, and peripheral a...

Definition: The process of achieving master data includes all the defined data management capabilities along with a process of compiling an authoritative value when sources present data variation. Com...

Definition: A hierarchical structure of concepts or entities within a domain, organized by relationships. Commentary: Two types of data ontologies are reference and operational.

Definition: A model that presents the declarative structure of data through a defined scope and perspective, and to a given level of abstraction. Commentary: Data models provide an existential and ana...

Definition: Any organized collection of data made available for consumption. Commentary: A best practice is to render the data set in a useful format to the consumer. The data set resides in a data as...