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WTF is a model? by Joe Reis
Author: Joe Reis (find the original here: https://joereis.substack.com/p/joes-nerdy-rants-5?, We are republishing this blog with permission of Joe Reis.) “We are not modeling reality, but the way information about reality is processed, by people.” – William Kent (Data and Reality, 1978). The world of data is so jumbled that you might be forgiven for not being…
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Fully Communication Oriented Information Modeling
Fully Communication Oriented Information Modeling (FCO-IM) is a method for building conceptual information models. Such models can then be automatically transformed into entity-relationship models (ERM), Unified Modeling Language (UML), relational models, data vault models, and many other artifacts. FCO-IM is widely taught in the Netherlands and worldwide, amongst which are universities of Professional Education in…