About the Authors
Tom Johnston
Tom Johnston is an independent consultant specializing in the design and management of data at the enterprise level. He has a doctorate in Philosophy, with an academic concentration in ontology, logic and semantics. He has spent his entire working career in business IT, in such roles as programmer, systems programmer, analyst, systems designer, data modeler and enterprise data architect. He has designed and implemented systems in over a dozen industries, including healthcare, telecommunications, banking, manufacturing, transportation and retailing. His current research interests are (i) the management of bi-temporal data with today's DBMS technology; (ii) overcoming this newest generation of information stovepipes—for ...

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