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This site features a number of technical papers and articles on ORM, as
well as other approaches such as the Unified Modeling Language (UML).
Permission has been obtained from the relevant publishers to reproduce
these publications on this website, and to make them freely downloadable.
If you are unfamiliar with ORM, you may want to first review the ORM in Detail section of this
site. Details about upcoming courses and conferences, as well as links to
websites with additional ORM publications may be found in the Resources section.
The editor
Dr. Terry Halpin,
Distinguished Professor and Vice President of Conceptual Modeling at Neumont University, Utah, formalized
the Object Role Modeling notation and has authored five books and over 150
technical papers. Visit the rest of this site to explore various
conceptual data modeling topics discussed in his publications.
Information on this site will grow with time, so please revisit.
If you have any feedback or suggestions, please e-mail me at thalpin@comcast.net.
Happy reading!
Terry Last updated: 2008 March 2 NORMA (Neumont ORM Architect) is a new modeling tool under
development that supports the next generation of ORM (ORM 2). Implemented
as an open-source plug-in to Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET, NORMA
requires at least the standard version of Visual Studio (2005 or 2008). For further
details on the ORM 2 graphical notation, see ORM 2 Technical Report
1. A technical preview of NORMA is available on The ORM Foundation as well as SourceForge. Here is an ORM Foundation link to NORMA, and here is a SourceForge link to NORMA.
The DAMA International Symposium 2008 held in San Diego on March 16-20, 2008, included a tutorial on ORM by Dr. Gordon Everest as well as a session on temporal data modeling by Dr. Terry Halpin.
An International Workshop on ORM will be held in Monterrey, Mexico on
November 12-14, 2008, in conjunction with the On The Move federated
conferences. For further details, see the ORM2008 Workshop Call For Papers.
Added five Business Rules Journal articles (Resources page).
Added five workshop papers (Modeling Issues page).
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