An Enterprise Information Architecture: A Case Study for Decentralized Organizations (open access)

An Enterprise Information Architecture: A Case Study for Decentralized Organizations

As enterprises become increasingly information based, making improvements in their information activities is a top priority to assure their continuing competitiveness. A key to achieving these improvements is developing an Enterprise Information Architecture (EIA). An EIA can be viewed as a structured set of multidimensional interrelated elements that support all information processes. The current ad hoc EIAs in place within many enterprises can not meet their future needs because of a lack of a coherent framework, incompatibilities, missing elements, few and poorly understood standards, uneven quality and unnecessary duplications. This paper discusses the EIA developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a case study, for other information based enterprises, particularly those with decentralized and autonomous organization structures and cultures. While the architecture is important, the process by which it is developed and sustained over time is equally important. This paper outlines the motivation for an EIA and discusses each of the interacting elements identified. It also presents an organizational structure and processes for building a sustainable EIA activity.
Date: June 15, 1999
Creator: Watson, R.W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 83, Ed. 1 Friday, October 15, 1999 (open access)

The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 83, Ed. 1 Friday, October 15, 1999

Semiweekly newspaper from Boerne, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 15, 1999
Creator: Keasling, Edna & Fierro, Jennifer
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 83, Ed. 1 Friday, October 15, 1999 (open access)

The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 83, Ed. 1 Friday, October 15, 1999

Semi-weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 15, 1999
Creator: Smith, W. Leon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Gayly Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 18, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 15, 1999 (open access)

The Gayly Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 18, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 15, 1999

Semi-monthly newspaper from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news and advertising of interest to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community.
Date: September 15, 1999
Creator: Hawkins, Don
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 24, Number 42, Pages [8807-9112], October 15, 1999 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 24, Number 42, Pages [8807-9112], October 15, 1999

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: October 15, 1999
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 15, 1999 (open access)

Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 15, 1999

Weekly newspaper from Port Aransas, Texas on Mustang Island that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 15, 1999
Creator: Judson, Mary
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 117, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 1999 (open access)

Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 117, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 1999

Semi-weekly newspaper from Livingston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 15, 1999
Creator: White, Barbara
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

American Voudou: Journey Into a Hidden World

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Voudou (an older spelling of voodoo)—a pantheistic belief system developed in West Africa and transported to the Americas during the diaspora of the slave trade—is the generic term for a number of similar African religions which mutated in the Americas, including santeria, candomble, macumbe, obeah, Shango Baptist, etc. Since its violent introduction in the Caribbean islands, it has been the least understood and most feared religion of the New World—suppressed, out-lawed or ridiculed from Haiti to Hattiesburg. Yet with the exception of Zora Neale Hurston's accounts more than a half-century ago and a smattering of lurid, often racist paperbacks, studies of this potent West African theology have focused almost exclusively on Haiti, Cuba and the Caribbean basin. American Voudou turns our gaze back to American shores, principally towards the South, the most important and enduring stronghold of the voudou faith in America and site of its historic yet rarely recounted war with Christianity. This chronicle of Davis' determined search for the true legacy of voudou in America reveals a spirit-world from New Orleans to Miami which will shatter long-held stereotypes about the religion and its role in our culture. The real-life dramas of the practitioners, true believers and skeptics of …
Date: November 15, 1999
Creator: Davis, Rod
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, January 15, 1999 (open access)

Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, January 15, 1999

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news and advertising of interest to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community.
Date: January 15, 1999
Creator: Vercher, Dennis
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, October 15, 1999 (open access)

Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, October 15, 1999

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news and advertising of interest to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community.
Date: October 15, 1999
Creator: Vercher, Dennis
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Safety Analysis: Evaluation of Accident Risks in the Transporation of Hazardous Materials by Truck and Rail at the Savannah River Plant (open access)

Safety Analysis: Evaluation of Accident Risks in the Transporation of Hazardous Materials by Truck and Rail at the Savannah River Plant

This report presents an analysis of the consequences and risks of accidents resulting from hazardous material transportation at the Savannah River Plant.
Date: April 15, 1999
Creator: Blanchard, A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proceedings of the 1999 Particle Accelerator Conference (open access)

Proceedings of the 1999 Particle Accelerator Conference

The conference has covered new developments in all aspects of the science, technology and use of accelerators. All individuals with an interest in particle accelerators were invited to attend.
Date: June 15, 1999
Creator: Luccio, A. & MacKay, W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library