Internet Links

By the time you get this, several of these links will no longer work. Such is life on the Web. We'll try to keep this list updated on our web site (http:\\www.lifecycle-toolkit.com). Also, if you find any others you think are useful please let us know.

Data Warehousing

LINK	COMMENTS
The Data Warehousing Information Center	This site is a great place to start if you are looking for links to almost any data warehouse related site. Larry Greenfield tirelessly maintains this page. You wonder how he finds time to work!
CIO Magazine's Data Warehousing Resource Center	A decent starting point as well. Fewer links, but a bit more information about each one.
Data Warehousing on the World Wide Web	This is www.datawarehousing.com -- a site of mysterious origin. They maintain a list server on data warehousing. This is an e-mail-based discussion list, which is a good place to observe discussions and ask questions.
Data Management Review Magazine	This magazine is dedicated to data warehousing with lots of data warehouse specific articles, product reviews and the like.
Intelligent Enterprise Magazine	This magazine is the combination of what was DBMS Magazine and Database Programming and Design. The archives of Ralph's monthly column from DBMS Magazine are still available in a single list, but you may need to look around a bit for more recent articles from Intelligent Enterprise.
Comp.databases.olap	This is a Usenet news group dedicated to OLAP issues (including data warehousing issues). We advise watching the dialog for a little while before you actually submit a question. You need a Usenet news service to access this.

Interesting White Papers

ZIFA Zachman framework info	A site for the Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement (ZIFA) recently appeared on the net. Other companies who use the framework also have information. In addition, there is a recent book about the Zachman framework and data warehousing.
The Data Warehousing Institute	They have a lot of valuable materials, but some of it is available to members only.
The Ken Orr Institute	This points to a basic overview paper with some interesting basic architecture info.

Standards

IETF Home Page Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)	Real (technical) people working on Internet related standards. This is the core group. See the section called Access, Searching and Indexing of Directories (asid) Charter for examples of their papers.
Network Applications Consortium's Default Page	You can find info on the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) here.
Microsoft's COM	Component Object Model technologies -- Microsoft's component software model.
CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) and the OMG	An independent page on Object Management Group's CORBA.
A Brief Tutorial on CORBA	A three page overview by Kate Keahey at the University of Indiana.
The Open Group Home Page The Open Group on Architecture	The Open Group is a recent combination of two organizations: X/Open Company Ltd (X/Open) and the Open Software Foundation (OSF).
National Standards Systems Network (ANSI)	The ANSI organization. This is becoming a useful site for researching standards. (Check out the "User Needs" link on the About NSSN page).

Metadata

Meta Data Coalition: for meta data interchange	The Meta Data Coalition (formerly the Metadata Coalition) was formed by the META Group and several major vendors to try and solve the growing problem of multiple, incompatible metadata repositories. They got a first pass exchange standard out, but support has been less than universal.
Microsoft's Repository	They've heard about data warehousing and they're coming in..

Accessible web sites for real warehouses (at least until they catch us peeking…)

The University Data Warehouse at Stanford	Stanford University
Data Warehouse - U Penn	University of Pennsylvania
ACT Data Warehouse Project	UCSD - DARWIN
Data Warehouse Project - BC	British Columbia Environment data warehouse -- includes a PP presentation on using spatial data in the warehouse.
University of Arizona	The University Information System. Check out their metadata info.
The Data Warehousing Project Home Page	Not really a warehouse, but an academic group studying data warehousing at Stanford. See their Selected Publications link for some academic papers on data warehousing.

The Authors' Sites

Ralph Kimball Associates	Ralph Kimball
DecisionWorks Consulting, Inc.	Margy Ross
InfoDynamics LLC	Warren Thornthwaite
StarSoft Solutions	Laura Reeves

Other sites that might be useful

The Dilbert Zone	As Scott Adams says, "It's BETTER than Working."
Computing Dictionary	Short definitions for almost every computer term, acronym and code you can think of. Try the Random button to test your geek level -- like the word "stemmer."