Source Virginia.gov.
http://www.vita.virginia.gov/oversight/dm/default.aspx?id=10340
and
http://www.vita.virginia.gov/uploadedFiles/VITA_Main_Public/Oversight/EA/Data_Management_Group/Commonwealth_EIA_Strategy_FINAL.pdf
This is more of a review of a website than it is from a specific article. I thought it was very interesting that the state I live in has developed an Enterprise Information Architecture.
From the strategy document
VITA staff drafted the strategy based on input from more than 120 data stewards
and other stakeholders from across 25 executive branch agencies. A series of
three stakeholder engagement sessions was facilitated by VITA staff from February
through April 2013.
This plan appears to be well thought out, addressing the position of EIA within the larger Virginia Enterprise Architecture schema. An EIA scorecard based on Gartner's EIA scorecard model was used to asses the maturity of data management with the participating state agencies.
Business drivers were developed to help drive the thought process in the EIA plan. Basically what problems are we trying to solve by improving our data architecture.
Finally a goals section in the paper is defined and then broken down into objectives for each listed goal.
This EIA plan is part of the larger Commonwealth Enterprise Architecture plan. I am very impressed by the coverage of this EIA plan, they appear to be following industry best practices when it comes to developing these types of plans.
What I was not able to find in this site is how the actual plan is working within the government. Having been a government contractor for many years, and even developing similar plans, I have seen many documents like this developed in order to receive funding, then put on a shelf (or in this case on their website) to then never be implemented.
From the effort and probably expense that it looks like has gone into this development I am hoping the state is truly using this system to better manage, understand and disseminate needed data.
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