Data Modeling
Introduction
Data modeling is a business and technical tool that encompasses a set a techniques for analyzing business requirements and designing information system components to manage associated data needs. Data models graphically capture and record business decisions, facilitate planning, and offer a means of understanding information relationships, structures, and processes. The Minnesota State Archives is interested in data models as a form of metadata. Metadata, or descriptive information about systems and records, assists the State Archives in meeting its mandate to identify, collect, preserve, and make available the historically valuable records of government regardless of format.
Links
The Minnesota State Archives offers the following page related to data modeling:
Data Modeling Resources
An annotated list of links to other data modeling-related sites.
Contact
For further information, contact:
Shawn Rounds
Minnesota Historical Society
345 Kellogg Blvd. West, Level A
St. Paul, MN 55102-1906
Telephone: 651-296-7953
Fax: 651-296-9961
April 29, 2002
