Today I spoke to the New York ERwin Modeling User Group (NYEMUG) on "Creating Great Definitions". One question came up, which was why bother crafting definitions at all - why not simply rely on Wikipedia for them? I suppose it could be any external source, and not necessarily Wikipedia (e.g. the Enterprise Data Management's Semantics Repository). The way it would work conceptually would be to associate a link to Wikipedia with any term. It might be thought that Wikipedia only deals with common terms, and not specialized technical terms. However, there are a good number of technical terms that are present in Wikipedia. My first reaction was both "yes" and "no". "Yes" because it is simply obvious there is considerable value in Wikipedia, but "no" because Wikipedia does not understand the enterprise I work in, which ultimately supplies an enormous amount of context that influences definitions. I will have to think about this to...
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