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Architectural Approach: A Conceptual Framework for the National Information System of the State of Kuwait
Auther : Hameed A. Alqaheri & Mohamed Daftedar
The National Information System (NIS) for the State of Kuwait main objectives are to acquire, organize, make accessible, and preserve the national and cultural heritage of the country. A complex and diversified system, like NIS, requires an architectural framework. Zachman Framwork (ZF)(Zachman, 1987, 1997), a widely known and used framework for enterprise information system architecture will be adopted to represent the NIS. The paper discusses only the conceptual architectural view of NIS which should communicate to the designers, implementers, operators and users a consistent view of the system.