Metatopia Conference 2007

Data Modeling Contentious Issues

Karen LopezKaren Lopez
Sr Project Manager
InfoAdvisors, Inc.


Monday 1:15pm - 4:30pm

Level: Data Management - Intermediate

A highly interactive and popular session where attendees evaluate the options and best practices of common and advanced data modeling issues, such as:

  • Party/party role
  • Natural vs. surrogate keys
  • Class Models vs. Data Models
  • What is Conceptual? Logical? What is Physical? Why Do We Care?
  • Which comes first, Data or Process?
  • Is Meta Data just about Data?
  • My Notation or your Notation?
...and others Participants in this session will be presented with an issue along with a range of responses.. Participants will vote on their preferred response, then the group as a whole will discuss the results, along with the merits of each possible response. The goal of this workshop is to help practitioners identify potential points of conflict in data modeling, as well as alternative approaches to resolving the issues. This presentation is targeted at experienced data modelers and assumes significant data modeling experience.
Speaker Bio
Karen Lopez is a Senior Project Manager at InfoAdvisors, Inc., a Toronto-based consulting firm. Karen has spoken at several DAMA conferences and DAMA Chapters. She has 20+ years of experience in project and data management on large, multi-project programs. Karen specializes in the practical application of data management principles. Karen is also the moderator of the InfoAdvisors Discussion Groups at www.infoadvisors.com.
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