The Disbursed Domain Paradigm

The Disbursed Domain Paradigm attempts to consolidate data type domains that share common characteristics into a common single entity type in the model. These data type domains often collapse into the unique identifier of some previously omitted entity type.

Rationale

Normalization attempts to isolate data entities and attributes to focused areas of the model.

Traditionally, little effort is made to normalize domain characteristics, even though they proliferate throughout the model in ways similar to attributes.

Common domians are consolidated by positing the existence of some new entity type that uses the common domain to define its unique identifier.

While such consolidation can be done mechanically, the business sense of the created entity type is left to the analyst and customer.

Trigger

The occurence of similar or identical domains to describe the contents of data types that appear disbursed over attributes throughout the model.