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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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universal data model

/ˌjuː.nɪˈvɜːr.səl ˈdeɪ.tə ˈmɒd.əl/ - n.

1. Term struck pending the definition of a single business term it claims to model for every business at once.

Struck
See also
  • canonical data modelThe one true model every system maps to, plus the per-system exceptions that quietly restore the chaos it replaced.
  • semantic modelThe layer where the business finally agrees what 'revenue' means, defined four times to match four dashboards.
  • single source of truthTerm struck pending the definitions of ownership, metric, and certification it depends on; without them the source is single but the truth is plural.