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Towards a Rosetta Stone for translating data between information systems

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posted on 2015-12-22, 14:28 authored by Josh Morton, John Beckford, Louise Cooke
Information systems are an important organizational asset and offer numerous benefits. However, organizations face continued challenges when upgrading ageing information systems, and the data contained within, to newer platforms. This article explores, through conversations with information systems professionals in four organizations, the potential development of a ‘Rosetta Stone’, which can translate data between systems and be used to help overcome various challenges associated with their modernization. Despitemixed feedback regarding theRosetta Stone concept from interviewees, solutions highlighted in literature combinedwith participant feedback presented theories for its development, primarily as a tool to enable meaningful interpretation of data, rather than direct translation. The conclusion reflects on data collected to recommend a framework for how the tool might be developed and has the potential to be of significant interest to practitioners, open-source communities and organizations.

History

School

  • Business and Economics

Department

  • Business

Published in

Business Information Review

Volume

32

Issue

4

Pages

220 - 230 (11)

Citation

MORTON, J., BECKFORD, J. and COOKE, L., 2015. Towards a Rosetta Stone for translating data between information systems. Business Information Review, 32 (4), pp. 220 - 230.

Publisher

SAGE Publications / © The Authors

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2015

Notes

This article was accepted for publication in the journal, Business Information Review [Sage Publications / © The Authors]. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0266382115616235

ISSN

1741-6450

Language

  • en