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This page links to a collection of articles and presentations covering subjects related to Distributed Data Architecture ranging from high-level concepts and frameworks down to detailed discussions of specific issues.

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What Is Architecture? - Knowing what to expect from architecture and what to demand from it are both things that business wrestles with. This article discusses key architectural deliverables in order to understand what can be achieved and delivered against expectations.

Federated Data - The Big Vision - One of the things that any architecture show how it adapts to the emerging trends in order to future proof the companies assets. This article presents our vision for Distributed Data and Service-Oriented environments going forward into the future.

Fundamentals Of A Distributed Data Architecture - Constructing a high-level Distributed Data Architecture is like solving a jigsaw which can sometimes have hundreds of pieces that need to be fitted together. This article describes an approach that categorises the components of a Distributed Data Architecture Framework into discrete manageable parts.

Content Forms Framework - An overview presentation describing a structures and rules driven approach to managing all the forms of data present with a multi-faceted enterprise data environment.

Synchronising Distributed Data Sets - Within a multi-site enterprise there will exist many data-sets that appear disparate but actually contain a significant amount of overlapping data that needs to be synchronised over time. This article considers some of the business drivers for adopting a particular approach to synchronising data sets. The presentation, from DAMA 2005, discusses the main approaches to synchronising data-sets.

Understanding Classification Schemes - This presentation introduces the concepts involved in building and managing Classification Schemes and the patterns for categorising and organising them

Producing The Corporate Data Model - An overview of the essential information for understanding the production of an integrated model of an organisations data in all its forms and how to approach the solution.