Links to Interesting Sites

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• Associations and User Groups
• Newsgroups, Discussion Groups and Mailing Lists
• Books and Data Publications
• Conferences & Training
• Academic & Educational
• Standards Associations
• Business Intelligence/ Data Warehouse  
• General Data Sites
• Cross Links

Associations and User Groups

• The Association of Business Process Management Professionals  
• The Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA), Toronto Chapter
• British Columbia Data Management Association
• Canadian Association of Management Consultants
• Canadian Information Processing Society
• Central Canada DB2 Users Group
• DAMA International
• EDM Council
• IRMA International  
• ISACA, Toronto Chapter  
• Metadata Professional Organizaton (MPO)
• Project Management Institute - Southern Ontario Chapter
• Statistical Association of Canada
• Strategic Leadership Forum
• Toronto Section of the American Society for Quality
• Toronto Oracle User Group
• Toronto Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN)
• Toronto TASSQ (IT Quality Assurance)

Newsgroups, Discussion Groups and Mailing Lists

• Data Administration news group
• Data Management Discussion Group
• Data Model Group (also other InfoAdvisors lists)
• Data Warehouse Discussion Forum
• Data Warehousing List 
• IRMAC Mailing List
• OLAP news group

Books & Data Publications

• The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN)
• Business Intelligence Advisor
• Data Warehousing Issues and Trends
• Databased Advisor
• DM Review
• InfoAdvisors Good online source for IRM books 
• Intelligent Enterprise
• Journal of Conceptual Modeling
• Knowledge Management 
• Knowledge Management World
• Managing Information  

Conferences & Training

• DCI
• Intervista Institute
• Information Balance
• Information Impact (Larry English)
• Learning Tree International  
• IRM UK

Academic & Educational

• Data Warehousing and OLAP: A Research-Oriented Bibliography  
• Dr. Arnon Rosenthal
• NSERC Business Intelligence Network
• DSS Resources
• Educause (for Data Administration and Management etc.)
• Institute for Certification of Computing Professionals (ICCP)  
• John Sowa
• KMT - Knowledgement Management Resource site
• SQL Tutorial
• University of Texas, Data Modeling  
• University of Toronto, Enterprise Integration Laboratory (Dr Mark Fox)

Standards Associations

• American National Standards Institute
• CSA International
• IEEE
• ISO International Organization for Standardization
• ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information Technology Standards
• ISO/IEC JTC 1 / SC 32 / WG 02 Metadata Working Group
• ISO/IEC JTC 1 / SC 32 / WG 02 Metadata Working Group Document Library
• National Institute of Standards & Technology
• Object Management Group
• Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
• Standards Council of Canada
• Web Services Interoperability Organization  

Business Intelligence/ Data Warehouse

• Bill Inmon
• Business Intelligence Network (B-EYE-Network) 
• Clickstream DataWarehousing
• Database Answers  
• Data Warehouse Institute (tdwi)
• DataWarehousing.com
• Data Warehousing and OLAP - a research bibliography
• Data Warehousing Online
• Data Warehouse Resource Page (datawarehouse.com)
• Data Warehousing tutorial
• The Data Warehousing Information Center
• ITtoolbox Portal for Data Warehousing
• The OLAP Report
• Ralph Kimball

General Data Sites

• ACM SIGMOD Special Interest Group on the Management of Data
• APQC Knowledge Management
• BC Ministry of Forests  
• Business Rules Community  
• Business Rules Group  
• Clive Finkelstein
• Conspectus  
• Database Debunking Forum  
• Data Governance Institute
• Data Governance Blog
• The Data Management Center
• Data Mining, Database Marketing, and Decision Support Technology (Kurt Thearling)
• dbazine  
• Enterprise Architecture Community  
• Enterprise-Wide IT Architecture (EWITA)  
• Federal Government's Information Management Resource Centre (IMRC)  
• Dave Hay's Essential Strategies
• gantthead
• Government of Ontario Information Technology Standards
• Green Chameleon  
• Steve Hoberman  
• IDEF Methods
• The Information Management Forum  
• International Enterprise Architecture Center  
• Kaieteur Institute for Knowledge Management
• Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining Foundation
• Knowledge Management @ brint.com
• MDM Institute
• MIKE 2.0
• Minnesota Office of Technology
• Object Role Modeling
• Occan's Razor by Avinash Kaushik
• Online Inc: Online/internet research information
• Requirements Networking Group  
• Semantic Arts  
• Second Moment applied analytics and statistics 
• SQL Tutorial  
• Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK)
• The Third Manifesto
• Two Crows (data mining)
• Universal Data Models (Len Silverston)
• Van Spall Inc.
• Visual-literacy.org  
• Workflow Management Coalition
• Workflow And Reengineering International Association (WARIA)
• XML.org - XML Industry Portal
• The Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement

Cross links

• DAMA Resource Page
• DAMA Chicago

Please contact IRMAC on if you've discovered a broken link or if you have suggestions to add to this list. Our policy is to list those web sites with instructional material that are relevant to our membership.