Zachman Definition

"Semantic Model"

This is a model of the actual Enterprise things (objects, assets) that are significant to the Enterprise. It typically would be represented as an "E/R "-type model and would be at a level of definition that it would express concepts (terms and facts) used in the significant business objectives/strategies that would later be implemented as "Business Rules".

Select Perspective

During projects using the Select Perspective a Business Information Model (BIM) is constructed which depicts the business objects, their scope with respect to Business Components and the relationships between them.

This model is an 'E/R'-type model using UML which only contains, essentially, data.

The BIM from projects could be copied from project models to the Enterprise model using Select Model Copy and then collated and rationalized to form the Enterprise Business Data model.

However, such an Enterprise model would invariably be quite large.  The following is a BIM from a relatively small project:

However, Select Business Solutions recommend copying the diagrams from project models to the Enterprise model and then creating seperate diagrams for each UML Package ie:

Each package is drawn with it's Business Classes and the classes immediately related to it; the owning package of the 'external' related classes can be seen from the name ie Party.Supplier.

Also, if even this level of detail becomes too great to manage easily, the class attibutes can be selectively hidden in order to make the diagram more readable for those not interested in that level of detail:

These diagrams are simply different views onto the Business data model and because they are all constructed from the same model dictionary elements, consistency is maintained.

The Business data model may be documented in a similar way to that in the Scope-Data cell using Select Document Generator.