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hard disk crash

One of the hard disks on the blog server crashed a couple of days ago. It’s Christmas and a bit busy, so the backup transfer has been slightly on the slow side. Bear over with us.

And Merry Christmas!

Yarc

ArchiMate model dimensions, domains, viewpoint classification and design viewpoints

Lankhorst introduces (i) a set of model dimensions, (ii) a kind of a framework for viewpoint classes and a somewhat more detailed set of predefined design viewpoints and (iii) a set of layers. All might be helpful when one is about to create views on a model I guess;
The author introduces

model dimensions (p.89) – 4 [...]

Archimate and TOGAF

Lankhorst writes in his “Enterprise Architecture at work” on how ArchiMate complements TOGAF (p. 113). If I understand him correctly, TOGAF doesn’t specify how one in particular goes about maintaining consistent acrhitectural models. This is to be left to tools;

“In order to achieve the goals of completeness and integrity in an architecture, architecture views are [...]