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Getting Data to Applications:
Why We Fail, How We Can Do Better
August 2000
Arnon Rosenthal, The MITRE Corporation
Frank Manola, The MITRE Corporation
Scott Renner, The MITRE Corporation
ABSTRACT
Many initiatives, governmental and commercial, have pursued the
grand vision of "transparent access"—making all data
available
to all consumers (users and applications), in a way the
consumer can interpret, anywhere and at any time. Among
large-scale enterprises, success stories in achieving such
visions seem rare or nonexistent. Instead of leading one more
charge "over the top", we suggest that a better guiding metaphor
would be "continual evolution of a partially satisfactory system".
This resembles what we have today, and what we will have in
2010. The key question, then, is: "How can the builders of each
system/data-resource prepare to work with partners, including
future, unknown partners". We address this by identifying first
steps that may offer some immediate benefits, give crucial
stakeholders (metadata providers) incentives to participate, and
yet fit a long term vision of greatly increased access
Additional Search Keywords
Data integration, metadata, enterprise systems, interoperability, architectures.
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