8 THE NAMING OF ARTEFACTS ON INFORMATION MODELS
The names of the entity types or object classes, relationships or associations, attributes and domains on information models should comply with whatever data naming convention is in place within the organisation that is the subject of the model.
The aim of developing a data naming convention is to ensure that consistent, unique and meaningful names are given to all existing and new items within the organisation’s whole information and data architecture in order to achieve unambiguous understanding of the information and data. Names need to be both meaningful and unique to the business: meaningful so that the terms used in the names are terms familiar to the business and unique so that the information ...
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