Internet Links
These links connect to some information sources we've found useful in Data Warehousing overall, and in some of the more detailed areas of architecture and standards. They are just a few of our favorites to get you started.  We are not trying to list every data warehouse related site on the net, only those sites that represent good jumping off points for exploring data warehousing on the Internet.  If you have an Internet connection on this computer, you should be able to click on the sites below and connect right in.

By the time you get this, several of these links will no longer work.  Such is life on the Web.   We'll try to keep this list updated on our web site (http:\\www.lifecycle-toolkit.com).   Also, if you find any others you think are useful please let us know.

Data Warehousing

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The Data Warehousing Information Center
This site is a great place to start if you are looking for links to almost any data warehouse related site. Larry Greenfield tirelessly maintains this page. You wonder how he finds time to work!
CIO Magazine's Data Warehousing Resource Center
A decent starting point as well. Fewer links, but a bit more information about each one.
Data Warehousing on the World Wide Web
This is www.datawarehousing.com -- a site of mysterious origin.  They  maintain a list server on data warehousing.   This is an e-mail-based discussion list, which is a good place to observe discussions and ask questions.
Data Management Review Magazine This magazine is dedicated to data warehousing with lots of data warehouse specific articles, product reviews and the like. 
DBMS Magazine The archives of Ralph's monthly column make this site worth checking out. Click on Articles, then Article Index, then K-O.  Other than that, they have no specific data warehousing section.
Comp.databases.olap
This is a Usenet news group dedicated to OLAP issues (including data warehousing issues). We advise watching the dialog for a little while before you actually submit a question. You need a Usenet news service to access this.
 

Interesting White Papers

ZIFA
Zachman framework info
A site for the Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement (ZIFA) recently appeared on the net. Other companies who use the framework also have information. In addition, there is a recent book about the Zachman framework and data warehousing.
The Data Warehousing Institute
They have a lot of valuable materials, but some of it is available to members only.
The Ken Orr Institute
This points to a basic overview paper with some interesting basic architecture info.
 

Standards

IETF Home Page
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Real (technical) people working on Internet related standards. This is the core group. See the section called Access, Searching and Indexing of Directories (asid) Charter for examples of their papers.
Network Applications Consortium's Default Page
You can find info on the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) here.
Microsoft's COM Component Object Model technologies -- Microsoft's component software model.
CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) and the OMG
An independent page on Object Management Group's CORBA.
A Brief Tutorial on CORBA
Kate Keahey at the University of Indiana
The Open Group Home Page
The Open Group on Architecture
 The Open Group is a recent combination of two organizations: X/Open Company Ltd (X/Open) and the Open Software Foundation (OSF).
National Standards Systems Network (ANSI)
The ANSI organization. Not much here yet, but they're working on it. (Check out the "38 user needs").

 

Metadata

Meta Data Coalition: for meta data interchange
The Meta Data  Coalition (formerly the Metadata Coalition) was formed by the META Group and several major vendors to try and solve the growing problem of multiple, incompatible metadata repositories. They got a first pass exchange standard out, but support has been less than universal.
Microsoft's Repository They've heard about data warehousing and they're coming in..

 

Accessible web sites for real warehouses (at least until they catch us peeking…)
The University Data Warehouse at Stanford
Stanford University
Data Warehouse - U Penn
University of Pennsylvania
ACT Data Warehouse Project
UCSD - DARWIN
Data Warehouse Project - BC
British Columbia Environment data warehouse -- includes a PP presentation on using spatial data in the warehouse.
University of Arizona
The University Information System.  Check out their metadata info.
The Data Warehousing Project Home Page
Not really a warehouse, but an academic group studying data warehousing at Stanford. See their Selected Publications link for some academic papers on data warehousing.

 

The Authors' Sites

Ralph Kimball Associates
Ralph Kimball
DecisionWorks Consulting, Inc. Margy Ross
InfoDynamics LLC Warren Thornthwaite
StarSoft Solutions Laura Reeves
 

Other sites that might be useful

The Dilbert Zone As Scott Adams says, "It's BETTER than Working."
Computing Dictionary
Short definitions for almost every computer term, acronym and code you can think of.   Try the Random button to test your geek level.

Others:

Daisy, In3D, Metaphor, GVA, NetMap, DataVista, Diamond, Analyst'sNotebook, AVS, Orionleads, CrossGraphs, EnterpriseMiner

Spotfire, CrimeLink, VisualInsights, I4D, Graf-FX, KDD, PV-Wave, NameSearch, DSS

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