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The Computer Journal 1987 30(1):8-15; doi:10.1093/comjnl/30.1.8
© 1987 by British Computer Society
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A Comparative Framework of Data Modelling Paradigms and Approaches

H. K. Klein1 * and R. A. Hirschheim2 §

1 School of Management, SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York, USA, 2 Oxford Institute of Information Management, Templeton College, Kennington, Oxford, OX1 5NY

Data modelling is viewed as a way of perceiving, organising and describing data. This shares important issues with the epistemological and ontological questions: how is valid knowledge acquired, and what is the nature of the world to which it refers? The philosophical positions taken on these questions correspond to antithetical paradigms: the realist-positivist and the nominalist-interpretivist. These are combined into a framework through which the various existing data modelling approaches are related. The most common data modelling paradigm, the realist-positivist, is explored in some detail. The result sheds doubt on the efficacy of this paradigm as a basis for data modelling approaches.

Received February 1986.

* School of Management, SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York

§ Oxford Institute of Information Management, Templeton College, Kennington, Oxford, OX1 5NY

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