Connecting enterprise architecture and information objects using an enterprise ontology

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11.2013
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04B - Conference paper
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Gerber, Aurona
de la Harpe, Andre
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International Conference on Enterprise Systems ES2013
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IEEE
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Cape Town
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In this paper we show how semantic metadata – derived from the enterprise architecture description - can improve both the exploitation of information in the operative business and the continuous alignment of information systems with the business. ArchiMEO, a formal representation of the ArchiMate framework, was applied to model selected parts of a large Swiss company, including metadata of concrete information objects stored in various applications. The evaluation of our approach clearly gave evidence that linking an enterprise ontology with operational databases is beneficiary: it provides an integrated view and management of enterprise entities spread over various data stores, represented in different ways and levels of granularity. Furthermore, because of its inference capabilities, when used as metadata encoding scheme an enterprise ontology can provide context-sensitive access to relevant information.
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Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Ontology, Metadata
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First International Conference on Enterprise Systems (ES 2013)
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978-1-4673-6412-6
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Hinkelmann, K., Maise, M., & Thönssen, B. (2013). Connecting enterprise architecture and information objects using an enterprise ontology. In A. van der Merwe, A. Gerber, & A. de la Harpe (Eds.), International Conference on Enterprise Systems ES2013. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ES.2013.6690088