Data Model Patterns: A Metadata Map (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems):

Data Model Patterns: A Metadata Map (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

Product Description

In recent years, companies and government agencies have come to realize that the data they use represent a significant corporateresource, whose cost calls for management every bit as rigorous as the management of human resources, money, and capital equipment. With this realization has come recognition of the importance to integrate the data that has traditionally only been available from disparate sources. An important component of this integration is the management of the “metadata” that describe, catalogue, and provide access to the various forms of underlying business data. The “metadata repository” is essential keeping track both of the various physical components of these systems, but also their semantics. What do we mean by “customer?” Where can we find information about our customers?

After years of building enterprise models for the oil, pharmaceutical, banking, and other industries, Dave Hay has here not only developed a conceptual model of such a metadata repository, he has in fact created a true enterprise data model of the information technology industry itself.

* A comprehensive work based on the Zachman Framework for information architecture-encompassing the Business Owner’s, Architect’s, and Designer’s views, for all columns (data, activities, locations, people, timing, and motivation)

* Provides a step-by-step description of model and is organized so that different readers can benefit from different parts

* Provides a view of the world being addressed by all the techniques, methods and tools of the information processing industry (for example, object-oriented design, CASE, business process re-engineering, etc.)

* Presents many concepts that are not currently being addressed by such tools – and should be

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Geometric Tools for Computer Graphics (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) (Textbook Binding):

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Reinventing the wheel is a terrible waste of time, yet legions of computer programmers do exactly that every day. Geometric Tools for Computer Graphics gives the working graphics programmer a vast collection of programming examples, complex code snippets explained and ready to use. Each chapter is filled with more than just code examples–the explanations needed to understand why these examples work the way they do are given by authors with experience both in writing and in the field.

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