Speaker Biograghy: Ole has been working in the IT industry for over 30 years, since finishing his computer science education at Trondheim Technical College. For the first 15 years he worked mostly as a developer. Since then he has worked mainly as an architect in insurance, airline and payroll companies. His main areas of responsibility have been integration, data warehouse, service enabling and modelling. Since June 2010 he has been working for Avinor as an IT architect at the enterprise level. He is the architect responsible in the ALTi project, which is implementing a multi-airport AODB with data from all the 46 airports that Avinor owns.


Day 2 - 26 March
Session: Technology, Systems Integration, IT & ICT

14:40 - 15:05 - Data dictionary, domain modelling and how to make things easy
Synopsis: The presentation will describe how the ALTi project has created a very usable data dictionary through a bottom-up approach, and how it is now used for top-down domain modelling and service definition. This approach greatly simplifies integration, data definitions, service design and reporting database design. By creating the data dictionary, Avinor and its AODB vendor has a common vocabulary and a common set of XML definitions, almost completely removing misunderstanding at the data level. The data dictionary is proprietary and the presentation will explain why this approach was chosen, rather than using a standard data model such as AIDX.

Audience will learn:

• The importance of standardising data and terminology
• Why a proprietary data dictionary approach was chosen
• Benefits for integration, services and reporting
• How to realise it in XML – very elegantly
• Why this approach should be considered by wider industry