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DAMA members get discounts on conferences from Debtech, IRM UK, TDWI and Wilshire Conferences.

DAMA DMBOK

Now available from Amazon on cd or paperback, or click here to buy from the publisher!

The Japanese edition is about to be published.

The Functional Framework is now available in French.

DAMA Dictionary of Data Management 

DAMA Curriculum for Post Secondary Education

Certified Data Management Professional

Click here to find out more

 CDMP Community Blog

Study guides for the CDMP qualification are available
from ICCP - click here for more information.

Previous DAMA International Award Winners are invited to provide a fuller or updated biography and a photograph to be included in the Award Winners section of this website. Please contact the VP of Online Services for more information or to send an update.

Enterprise Information Management 2010

Wilshire Conferences and DAMA International are proud to announce their second Enterprise Information Management Conference to be held in Toronto, Canada from September 21-23, 2010. The program will focus on EIM as an emerging discipline for tying together all of the enterprise’s information assets and applications

Through tutorials, lectures, discussions and case study sessions, you will gain value from real-world tales of exactly how organizations are implementing the tools and techniques that comprise this emerging discipline.

If you are a business or IT professional shouldering the responsibility of developing your EIM strategy, we hope you will join DAMA International and Wilshire Conferences in Toronto for the Enterprise Information Management Conference. Learn what EIM really is…and how you take it from idea to reality.

Details of the conference can be found here

Data Management, Information Quality and DW&BI Conferences Europe 2010

The programme is now available for the following 3 co-located conferences taking place in London, UK, 3 - 5 November.

• DAMA International Conference Europe 2010
  
• Information Quality Conference Europe 2010
  
• Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence Conference Europe 2010
  

This is Europe's major independent conference on Data Management, Information Quality and Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. Now in its 12th year, these three co-located conferenves offer a great opportunity to learn from the industry's leading figures and network with and learn from your peers.

• 3 co-located conferences on Data Management, Information Quality & DW/BI
  
• Choose from 5 conference tracks and 13 pre-conference tutorials
  
• Featured speakers include Larry English, Aaron Zornes, Rick van der Lans, Colin White, Peter Aiken, Lori Silverman, Steve Hoberman, Malcolm Chisholm, Mike Ferguson and many more...
  
• Case studies include:Prudential, BP, Virgin Money, Waitrose, Nestlé, Shell, Aston Martin Lagonda, NATO HQ, Co-operative Financial Services, A1 Telekom, Maybank, Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, Flemish Public Administration, The British Army, Compassion International and Experian.
  
• Topics include: Information Quality, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Dimensional Modelling, Data Governance, Metadata, Master Data Management, Data Integration, Data Architecture, Definitions Management, Data Modelling, Analytics, Corporate Data Strategy, Data Warehouse Technologies, Cloud Computing, Open Source Business Intelligence, Data Migration, Data Model Scorecard, Business Semantics, Operational BI, Unstructured Data, XML, Mashups, Agile, EIM, Corporate Data Management, Latest Challenges, Trends and Technologies and many more...
  
• Group Booking Discounts available for 2+ delegates
  
• DAMA International members are entitled to a 10% discount

Details of the programme are on the conference home page, here.

 SUBMIT A SPEAKING PROPOSAL FOR CHICAGO - APRIL 3-7, 2011

DAMA Internationaland Wilshire Conferences are pleased to announce that presentation proposals are now being accepted for the Annual Enterprise Data World Conference scheduled for April 3-7, 2011 at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel.

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This conference is recognized as the most comprehensive data management educational conference in the world. Approximately 700 Business and IT professionals will attend.

Speaker submission guidelines and links to the online proposal form can be found at the conference website.

All questions regarding speaking may be directed to the DAMA and Wilshire Program Chairs at info@wilshireconfererences.com. The deadline for submitting your proposal is September 7, 2010.

Thanks and we look forward to hearing from you!

New chapters are forming in various places around the world. For more details, click on the links.

DAMA Brazil - chapter forming

DAMA St Louis - re-formimg

The Data Management Career Centre is a self-serve jobs portal for the Data Management profession. Click on the 'Career Center' link at the top right hand corner of any page on this site, or click here, to use it.

Prospective employers should go into the 'Employers/Recruiters' side of the front page, create an account (if you don't already have one), and then post jobs and review cvs. The charges can be seen on the 'Products/Pricing' link, before you commit to anything.

Please do not send us emails asking us to post jobs - we can't do that for you!

Prospective employees should look at the 'Job Seekers' side of the front page. All the job seeking functions are free.

The Good Stuff - What's in your Library?

Loretta Mahon Smith has started a discussion on the DAMA-I LinkedIn group, where members can pass on good refrence sources, and ask for advice about where to look for them. Click here to jon the debate.

Joining DAMA

DAMA is organised into a number of chapters, found in many countries around the world.

To find your nearest chapter, look on the Chapter List, and follow the link to their website. If that doesn't help (maybe there isn't a chapter near you?) then we also have a Global Chapter which covers everyone who doesn't live near one of the geographically-based chapters.

If you don't have a local chapter, and would like to find out more about setting one up, then please contact the VP of Chapter Services for more information.