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The link between data modeling approaches and philosophical assumptions: A critique
ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAS CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS, pp.306-308
01 Jan 1997
Abstract
Hirschheim et al. (1995) argue that information system designers' choice of a particular data modeling approach is inextricably linked to ontological, epistemological social-contextual and representational assumptions that they make about the worlds they seek to represent via their models. I argue, instead, that the link between different data modeling approaches and these four sets of assumptions is either weak or non-existent. I agree that there is some type of association between use of a particular data modeling approach and the ontological assumptions that designers make. The nature of the links, however, between different data modeling approaches and different epistemological, social-contextual and representational assumptions is more problematical.
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- Title
- The link between data modeling approaches and philosophical assumptions: A critique
- Creators
- R Weber
- Contributors
- JND Gupta (Editor)
- Publication Details
- ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAS CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS, pp.306-308
- Conference
- ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAS CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS
- Publisher
- ASSOCIATION INFORMATION SYSTEMS
- Number of pages
- 3
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science (Informatics)
- Identifiers
- 991019238699104721
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