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Domain
Architecture Task Forces Cont'd.
Architecture Domains
This architecture
is one of a set of architecture "domains" that define reusable building
blocks of technology infrastructure. A domain architecture provides
a logically consistent set of principles to guide the engineering of
a domain infrastructure that can change as quickly as required to meet
Emory's needs now and in the future. The domain principles are derived
from Emory's priorities, goals and strategies by applying the Conceptual
Architecture Principles to the domain. The domain architecture also
provides guidelines to facilitate the process of selecting and applying
industry standards, selecting standard products, and designing standard
configurations of technologies within the domain.
A list of Emory's
architecture domains and their definitions and the Conceptual Architecture
Principles (CAPs) can be found in Document
2: Designing Emory's IT Architecture. Additional information to
facilitate the architecture creation process will be supplied once
the team is formed. See also "Responsibility" below.
Organizational
Scope
The architecture
addresses the needs of the "University" and its community, that is,
the enrolled students and the employed faculty and staff of Emory University
no matter where they reside, keeping in mind that education and research
involving faculty and students of the Health Sciences also occur at
Emory Hospital, Crawford Long Hospital, Emory Clinic, satellite clinics,
the V.A. Medical Center, Grady Hospital and its buildings, and Emory
West. The term "Emory" alone includes all its sites. Healthcare clinical
priorities and architectural requirements will need to be addressed
elsewhere. Both architectures will need to address issues of interoperability
between the University and Healthcare insofar as University Health Sciences
are concerned.
Level
of applicability
The IT Architecture,
including the conceptual architecture and the domain architectures,
applies to the enterprise-wide IT infrastructure. It is applicable to
all changes to that infrastructure and to all parts of the enterprise-wide
solution life cycle, including system design, construction, deployment,
management, product selection, systems integration, database development,
standards, and configurations relating to enterprise-wide information
technology at Emory. Unit IT decisions that are of local benefit and
do not adversely affect university resources are normally at the discretion
of the unit. However, local decisions should consider the effect on
the overall system. To the extent that Emory units adapt the enterprise-wide
architecture for local use, the enterprise-wide architecture can provide
a basis for common local architecture across the units of Emory.
Responsibility
The responsibility
of this domain architecture Task Force is to collaboratively create
a document that defines an architecture for this domain to recommend
for Emory to the University Information Technology Architecture (ITA)
committee. A template specifying the required content and format will
be supplied by the first meeting of the Task Force. The Task Force may
include other information in its document that it deems necessary.
The Task Force should
obtain approval from the ITA for each component of the document before
proceeding to the next. The Task Force is encouraged to request clarification
regarding its work from the ITA as needed. It may also request from
the ITA assistance and access to additional expertise, including coaching
by the Enterprise Architecture Strategy analyst assigned to Emory by
the consulting company (META Group) that Emory has retained.
Length
of Service
Each Architecture
Domain Task Force has a limited life. When a Task Force's deliverable
is accepted, the work of the Task Force is done, and the task force
disbands. Architecture Task Forces may be created and recreated as needed
when there is work to do.
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