Abstract

 Potvin, Joseph    Workshop to Discuss Enterprise Architecture Documentation   

Workshop to Discuss Enterprise Architecture Documentation

Abstract

For large organizations including government departments and agencies, the selection of particular open source solutions or approaches often becomes side-tracked by uncertainties about whether the collaborative open source business model itself is "authorized" in the organization. Business architecture should set the context for IM/IT architecture. In October 2002, the Architecture and Engineering Committee ( AEC    Enterprise Architecture Pattern    PWGSC    Unified Modeling Language   ) of the Canadian Federal Department of Public Works and Government Services () passed the following statement: "AEC agrees that the "open source business model" is one of the appropriate models for: (a) the selection and use of IM/IT solutions in PWGSC; (b) the production and sharing of IM/IT solutions by PWGSC." Work is now underway to refine the technical documentation of this business model as an http://hillside.net/chiliplop/2003/2003_enterprise_architectural_patterns.htm, and to document it using the business extensions of the open standard http://www.omg.org/uml/. This reference documentation will be shared under the GNU-FDL for others to use and adapt as required. This workshop discussion will be an early opportunity to orient this reference documentation to serve the enterprise architecture requirements of a wide diversity of organizations.