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Digital Thread
Written By Tamara Hambrick and John Madsen
For questions or comments, contact: Tamara.Hambrick@ngc.com or john.madsen@ngc.com
Edited by John Coleman, Ph.D.
For corrections or updates, contact: John.Coleman@Engility.com
Concise Definition
Detail Information
A Digital Thread contains digital artifacts which are a combination of authoritative professional data, information, knowledge, and wisdom addressing stakeholders’ unique perspective in a digital viewpoint that can be digitally represented in a view within an enterprise data-information-knowledge system/s of a materiel system. The Digital Thread seamlessly expedites the controlled interplay of digital artifacts, based on the Digital System Model template, to inform decision makers throughout a system's life cycle by providing the capability to access, integrate and transform disparate data into actionable information in support of reuse.
Concise Definition
A digital artifact is any combination of professional data, information, knowledge, and wisdom (DIKW Pyramid) [1] expressed in digital form and exchanged within a digital ecosystem.
The Concept
A Digital Thread contains digital artifacts which are a combination of authoritative professional data, information, knowledge, and wisdom addressing stakeholders’ unique perspective in a digital viewpoint that can be digitally represented in a view within an enterprise data-information-knowledge system/s of a materiel system. The Digital Thread seamlessly expedites the controlled interplay of digital artifacts, based on the Digital System Model template, to inform decision makers throughout a system's life cycle by providing the capability to access, integrate and transform disparate data into actionable information in support of reuse.
