Editing Zachman Framework (section)

=== "Information Systems Architecture" framework ===
[[File:ZFArticlePages.jpg|thumb|210px|The original 1987 "Information Systems Architecture Framework".]] 
[[File:Zachman Framework Detailed.jpg|thumb|320px|Simple example of the 1992 Framework.]]
In the 1987 article "A Framework for Information Systems Architecture"<ref name="Zach87">{{cite journal |first=John A. |last=Zachman |authorlink=John Zachman |date=1987 |url=http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/50th/applications/zachman.html |title=A Framework for Information Systems Architecture |journal=IBM Systems Journal |volume=26 |issue=3 |id=IBM Publication G321-5298}}</ref> Zachman noted that the term "architecture" was used loosely by information systems professionals, and meant different things to planners, designers, programmers, communication specialists, and others.<ref name="Jac92">{{cite journal |first=Durward P. |last=Jackson |date=1992 |title=Process-Based Planning in Information Resource Management |journal=Emerging Information Technologies for Competitive Advantage and Economic Development: Proceedings of 1992 Information Resources Management Association International Conference |editor-first=Mehdi |editor-last=Khosrowpour |isbn=1-878289-17-9}}</ref> In searching for an objective, independent basis upon which to develop a framework for information systems architecture, Zachman looked at the field of classical [[architecture]], and a variety of complex engineering projects in industry. He saw a similar approach and concluded that architectures exist on many levels and involve at least three perspectives: raw material or [[data]], function or processes, and location or networks.<ref name="Jac92"/>

Zachman's Information Systems Architecture is designed to be a classification schema for organizing architecture models. It provides a synoptic view of the models needed for enterprise architecture. Information Systems Architecture does not define in detail what the models should contain, it does not enforce the modeling language used for each model, and it does not propose a method for creating these models.<ref>[[Alain Wegmann]] et al. (2008). [http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/129325/files/Wegmann_et_al-SEAM_%26_Zachman-EDOC2008.pdf "Augmenting the Zachman Enterprise Architecture Framework with a Systemic Conceptualization"]. Presented at the 12th IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2008), München, Germany, September 15–19, 2008.</ref>