Len Silverston & Paul Agnew 
The Data Model Resource Book 
Volume 3: Universal Patterns for Data Modeling

This third volume of the best-selling ‘Data Model Resource Book’
series revolutionizes the data modeling discipline by answering the
question ‘How can you save significant time while improving the
quality of any type of data modeling effort?’ In contrast to the
first two volumes, this new volume focuses on the fundamental,
underlying patterns that affect over 50 percent of most data
modeling efforts. These patterns can be used to considerably reduce
modeling time and cost, to jump-start data modeling efforts, as
standards and guidelines to increase data model consistency and
quality, and as an objective source against which an enterprise can
evaluate data models.

Table of Content

Foreword.

Chapter 1 Introduction.

Chapter 2 Setting Up Roles: What Parties Do.

Chapter 3 Using Roles: How Parties Are Involved.

Chapter 4 Hierarchies, Aggregations, and Peer-to-Peer Relationships: The Organization of Similar Data.

Chapter 5 Types and Categories: the Classification of Data.

Chapter 6 Status: The States of Data.

Chapter 7 Contact Mechanisms: How to Get in Touch.

Chapter 8 Business Rules: How Things Should Work.

Chapter 9 Using the Patterns.

Chapter 10 Socializing the Patterns.

Index.

About the author

Len Silverston is the best-selling author of The Data Model
Resource Book (Volumes 1 and 2), a speaker and data management
consultant with more than 25 years of experience helping
organizations integrate their information and systems. He is the
owner and president of Universal Data Models, LLC.

Paul Agnew is an author and consultant with more than 17
years of experience in the data management field in many different
industries. He is an expert in data modeling, architecture, and
integration. He is a senior partner at Universal Data Models, LLC
(www.universaldatamodels.com).