I now know of two global insurance companies who started their digital initiatives by trying to define a global, canonical data model, so I guess my two-year-old blog post is still relevant: innoq.com/en/blog/thoughts-o… TL;DR: You don’t want to do that.

Why You Should Avoid a Canonical Data Model

As an enterprise architect, you might be tempted to strive for a canonical data model for your systems’ interfaces. That’s not a good idea.

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HL7? I think it's overkill, but extensibility made it go far. But what do you think?
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Replying to @salvadorhgr @martinfowler
I’m not an expert on HL7, but I do believe it has value. I’m not suggesting that standards are always bad – just weary of those that try to do too much at once

Nov 9, 2017 · 6:07 AM UTC
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