Correlated Architectures

Enterprise Architecture are about visibility of information, including the processes, services, resources, data descriptions and rules and policies of government. They also describe government, how it works, its resources and services
These architectures, as an information, is often captured in different kinds of viewpoints, and most of the time as models.
Good Architectures make all the data more valuable by describing how they co-relate with other organization dimensions.
The most valuable architectures are models with a formal meta model or schema, e.g. TOGAF among others.
But currently – most models are not web data accessible, they are trapped in tools, files and worst then even images as pictures and theese odels are not linkable or linked across other models. There can be models for business processes, it portfolio management, organization structures, strategies and intents, data schemas, balance scorecards, soa interfaces...
Architecture models are just data, and as such they shall be federated, analysed, queried, linked and mashed up – data to be published.
As for information they can be unconnected, redundant and not usable outside their source.
There is the need to design and develop various tools, approaches and techniques for querying, viewing, federating and analysing the architectures of the organization as a whole, this can enable consistent visibility and collaboration, provide for external comments and input from stakeholders
Last but not least, having computable architectures, we can pretend to drive and affect the organizaitons from them, making it live, more then aligned with the business, they are the nervous system of the organization.