<s>
Enterprise	B-Application
data	I-Application
modelling	I-Application
or	O
enterprise	B-Application
data	I-Application
modeling	I-Application
(	O
EDM	O
)	O
is	O
the	O
practice	O
of	O
creating	B-Application
a	I-Application
graphical	I-Application
model	I-Application
of	I-Application
the	I-Application
data	I-Application
used	O
by	O
an	O
enterprise	O
or	O
company	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Typical	O
outputs	O
of	O
this	O
activity	O
include	O
an	O
enterprise	B-Application
data	I-Application
model	I-Application
consisting	O
of	O
entity	B-Architecture
–	I-Architecture
relationship	I-Architecture
diagrams	I-Architecture
(	O
ERDs	O
)	O
,	O
XML	O
schemas	O
(	O
XSD	O
)	O
,	O
and	O
an	O
enterprise	O
wide	O
data	B-Application
dictionary	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
EAI	O
(	O
enterprise	B-Architecture
application	I-Architecture
integration	I-Architecture
)	O
an	O
EDM	O
allows	O
data	O
to	O
be	O
represented	O
in	O
a	O
single	O
idiom	O
,	O
enabling	O
the	O
use	O
of	O
a	O
common	O
syntax	O
for	O
the	O
XML	O
of	O
services	O
or	O
operations	O
and	O
the	O
physical	O
data	O
model	O
for	O
database	O
schema	O
creation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Data	B-Application
modeling	I-Application
tools	O
for	O
ERDs	O
that	O
also	O
allow	O
the	O
user	O
to	O
create	O
a	O
data	B-Application
dictionary	I-Application
are	O
usually	O
used	O
to	O
aid	O
in	O
the	O
development	O
of	O
an	O
EDM	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
implementation	O
of	O
an	O
EDM	O
is	O
closely	O
related	O
to	O
the	O
issues	O
of	O
data	B-General_Concept
governance	I-General_Concept
and	O
data	O
stewardship	O
within	O
an	O
organization	O
.	O
</s>
