The document discusses the DBJ Information Architecture Method for developing enterprise data architecture. It advocates that taxonomy is the key first step, as an overlooked but important part of information architecture. The method involves iteratively developing the taxonomy hierarchy, representing it in a taxonomy table, and using that taxonomy to guide content organization and multiple implementation iterations, with the goal of achieving consistent content management across implementations.

1. TAXONOMY  DATA DEVELOP  TEST  REPEAT
Author: Dusan Jovanovic, MSc Arch, TOGAF
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2. Why ? How? When?
After project Vision, Requirements and Bussiness Architecutre are
sufficiently defined, first task is to Architect the Enterprise Data.
Key to Enterprise Data Architecture: TAXONOMY.
This DBJ
Method, is an
TOGAF ADM
Tailoring Effort.
Overlooked and
Misunderstood:
Information
Architecture.
.
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3. DBJ Information Architecture Method: Pragmatic, Feasible and Lightweight
Repeatable and productive.
Target is to achieve consistent content management.
Taxonomy is abstract and hard.
Good Taxonomy permeates to series of feasible implementations.
Requirements
Architecture
Definition
Implementation
Taxonomy Hierarchy
complete tree view
Taxonomy Table is the
key for consistent
content and relation to
taxonomy hierarchy.
Content vs Taxonomy
Good Architecture is
implementation agnostic.
This allows for iteration
through different
technologies in order to
find the most
Feasible implementation.
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