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  1. Access Control
  2. Accidents at Work
  3. Accommodation (Long-term)
  4. Actions,Decisions,People & Property
  5. Afghanistan Rainfall
  6. Agents and Leads
  7. Agents Commissions
  8. Aircraft Parts and Orders
  9. Airline Reservations
  10. Amazon and Starbucks
  11. Animal Shelters
  12. Apartment Rentals
  13. Aquarium Stores
  14. Area Regulations
  15. Archeology
  16. Ars Digita BootCamp
  17. Art Galleries
  18. Art Galleries (Online)
  19. Assets Maintenance
  20. Asylum Seekers and Refugees
  21. Athletes and Events
  22. Athletes and Teams
  23. ATM Machines
  24. Auction Web Site
  25. Avon Cosmetics
  26. Baby-Sitters and Nannies
  27. Badminton Clubs
  28. Balbir's Expert Exchange
  29. Ballet Companies (Casting Productions)
  30. Ballet Companies (Org and People)
  31. 'Bang for the Buck' Models
    1. Catalogs of Products
    2. Customers and Products
    3. Customers and Services
    4. Marriages (Contemporary)
    5. Marriages (Traditional)
    6. Partnerships and Relationships
    7. Product Catalogs
    8. Generic Foundation
    9. Reservations
  32. Bank and Branches
  33. Banking (Online)
  34. Bankrupts
  35. Baseball Umpire Scheduling
  36. Basel II Accord
  37. BBC (UK)
  38. Behavior Monitoring
  39. Best Practice
  40. Bidders and Buyers
  41. Bill of Materials
  42. Blogs
  43. BMEWS Data Architecture
  44. BMEWS Organization
  45. Boating Marinas
  46. Bookstore
  47. Bookstore and Warehouses
  48. Books and Libraries
  49. Botanical Gardens
  50. Boutiques
  51. Boy Scouts
  52. Business 2 Business e-Commerce
  53. Business 2 Consumer e-Commerce
  54. Business Directories
  55. Call Centers
  56. Canal Trips
  57. Car Dealership
  58. Car Hire
  59. Car Park Security
  60. Car Parking Enforcement
  61. Car Parts Suppliers
  62. Carphone Warehouse
  63. Car Sales
  64. Car Service Center
  65. Case Management (Lawyers)
  66. Case Management (Social Workers)
  67. Casinos
  68. Catalogs of Products
  69. Catering Businesses for Schools
  70. Catering Services
  71. Catteries
  72. Cattle Breeding
  73. CD Collection
  74. Cemetaries
  75. Census Results
  76. Charities
  77. Chess Tournaments
  78. Children in Institutions (UNICEF)
  79. Children's Aid Rcds Mgt
  80. Childrens Common Assessment Framework
  81. Children's National Database
  82. Children's Playgroup
  83. Church Donations
  84. Church Members (Visio)
  85. Church Praise Teams
  86. Church Sunday Schools
  87. Church (Youth)
  88. Cinema Bookings
  89. Circus
  90. Cirque du Soleil
  91. Citizens and Services
  92. City Councils
  93. City Hall Certificate Registration
  94. City Licences
  95. City Tourist Guide
  96. Click Stream Analysis
  97. Clients and Consultants
  98. Clients and Fees
  99. Clients and Locations
  100. Clinical Trials
  101. Clown Registry
  102. Club Members
  103. CMDB - Configuration Mgt DB
  104. Coach Trips
  105. Commercial Web Sites ...
    1. Avon Cosmetics
    2. Cirque du Soleil
    3. Dog Whisperer
    4. eBay Deals
    5. MyLifeBits Research
    6. NewEgg
    7. SalesForce
    8. Shrek 2 Movie
    9. Ticketmaster
  106. Coding 4 Fun Projects
  107. Communities ...
    1. Community Groups and Workers
    2. FAQs and Newsletters
    3. Personalization
    4. Philip Greenspun
    5. Publish/Subscribe & KPI Portal
    6. User Registration
  108. Complaints and Feedback
  109. Competition Results
  110. Conference Centers
  111. Construction and Manufacturing
  112. Construction Jobs Bidding
  113. Consultants and Clients
  114. Consultant Search Web Site
  115. Contacts and Products
  116. Contact Management
  117. Contract Management
  118. Corporate Intranet
  119. Cosmetics Home Sales
  120. Course Catalogs
  121. Cow's Events
  122. CraigsList
  123. Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)
  124. Credit Accumulation (Europe)
  125. Crisis Call Centers
  126. CRM and Personalization
  127. CRM - Microsoft's Data Model
  128. CSR Framework
  129. CVs and Job Histories (Visio)
  130. Dance School
  131. Data Architecture
  132. Data Dictionary
  133. Data Mashups
  134. Data Warehouse ...
    1. Customers and Purchases
    2. eCommerce Data Warehouse
    3. Loading a Data Warehouse
    4. Pharmaceuticals
    5. Snowflake Design for Transaction
    6. Star Design for Teaching Schedule
    7. Star Design for Transaction (Conceptual)
    8. Star Design for Transaction (Physical)
  135. Databases for Life
  136. Dating Sites
  137. Day Care Centers
  138. Debt Collection
  139. Department Store
  140. Diabetes Diagnosis and Treatment
  141. Dietician's Consulting Practice
  142. Dictionaries for Foreign Languages
  143. Digital Challenge (UK)
  144. Diseases and Symptoms
  145. Doctor's Practice
  146. Document Management
  147. Document Management (Specific)
  148. Document Publication
  149. Document Workflow
  150. Dog Kennels
  151. Dog Whisperer
  152. Domestic Violence Centers
  153. Drivers Citations Log
  154. Driving School
  155. Education :-
    1. University Course Catalogs
    2. School Management Systems
    3. School Print Shops
    4. Student Accommodation
    5. Student Assessments
    6. Student Assignments
    7. Student Athletes and Teams
    8. Student Exams
    9. Student Exams in Saudi
    10. Student Loans
    11. Student Rosters
    12. Student Work Placements
  156. eBay Deals
  157. e-Commerce
    1. B2B e-Commerce
    2. B2C e-Commerce
    3. Customers, Campaigns and e-Commerce
    4. Games Web Site
    5. Orders & Shipments
    6. Photo Catalogs
  158. e-Government
    1. UK e-Govt Standard Data
  159. e-Learning
  160. Elephant Sanctuaries
  161. Emergency Services
  162. Employees
  163. Employees Leave Records
  164. Employees Working at Home
  165. Employment Agencies
  166. Endangered Species
  167. Enterprise Data Mashups
  168. Enterprise Information Repository
    1. Data Migration Mapping
    2. Generation of Entities
    3. Glossary of Business terms
    4. Glossary with Queries
  169. Entertainment

  170. EPOS
  171. Equipment Maintenance
  172. Estimating Development Costs
  173. ERP
  174. Event Registrations
  175. Event Reservations
  176. Events in a Cow's Life
  177. FAQs
  178. Families and Wills
  179. Family Advocacy
  180. Farm Management
  181. Farms and Cow's Events
  182. Fashion Boutiques
  183. Father of all Data Models
  184. FBI Global Database
  185. Feedback and Complaints
  186. File Archiving Systems
  187. Financial Information Portal
  188. Fingerprint Recognition
  189. Foreign Language Dictionaries
  190. Forensic Science Labs
  191. Forklift Truck Servicing
  192. Franchise Operators
  193. Freight Forwarders
  194. Fuel Coupons Mgt
  195. Fund Raising
  196. Funeral Homes
  1. Customers :-
    1. Clients and Fees
    2. Clients and Locations
    3. CRM Customer Metrics
    4. CRM and Personalization
    5. CRM Top-Level Architecture
    6. CRM Top-Level Overview
    7. Customers with multi-lingual B2C
    8. Customers at a Bank
    9. Customers at a Bookstore
    10. Customers at a Call Center
    11. Customers and Addresses
    12. Customers and Campaigns
    13. Customers and Car Hire
    14. Customers and Car Sales
    15. Customers and Car Servicing
    16. Customers and Dept Stores
    17. Customers and Deals (UML)
    18. Customers and Deliveries
    19. Customers and e-Commerce
    20. Customers and Games Shops
    21. Customers and Hairdressers
    22. Customers and Hardware Store
    23. Customers and a Health Center
    24. Customers and Insurance
    25. Customers and Invoices
    26. Customers and Loans
    27. Customers and Online Banking
    28. Customers and Orders
    29. Customers and Partial Deliveries
    30. Customers and Phone Bills
    31. Customers and Products
    32. Customers and Purchases Data W'hse
    33. Customers and Services
    34. Customers Card Transactions
    35. Customer Class Scheduling
    36. Customers Comm & Personal
    37. Customer Data
    38. Customer Data Catalog
    39. Customers (Commercial & Personal)
    40. Customer MetaData Repository
    41. Customer Metrics
    42. Customer Order Tracking
    43. Generic Customer Model (Popkin)
  2. Future of Databases
  3. Gambling (Online)
  4. Games Features
  5. Games Store
  6. Gaming Leagues
  7. Garden Maintenance
  8. Genealogy and Family Trees
  9. Generic Data Models
    1. Circus (Events & Players)
    2. Customers and Services
    3. Document Management
    4. Father of All Models
    5. Generic Foundation
    6. Organisations and People
    7. Organisations, People and Transactions
    8. Organisations,Members & Meetings
    9. Patient Care
    10. Reservations
    11. Shrek 2 Movie (Events & Places)
    12. Transport
    13. User-defined Hierarchies
  10. George Orwell's 1984
  11. Global Accountability
  12. Global Community
  13. Global Consulting
  14. Global Credit Crunch New
  15. Global Crime
  16. Global Law Firm
  17. Global Project Management
  18. Global Reference Database
  19. Golf Club Management
  20. Golf Course Maintenance
  21. Golf Tournaments
  22. Google AdSense
  23. Google Android Phone Platform
  24. GRI Indicators
  25. GRI Repository
  26. GRI User's Portal
  27. Grocery Store
  28. Gym Training Diary
  29. Hairdressers Appointments
  30. Harbour Management
  31. Hardware Sales
  32. Health Centers
  33. Health Clubs
  34. Health Insurance Claims
  35. Help Desk
  36. Hierarchies & Trees
    1. Business Intelligence / MI
    2. Employees
    3. Management Hierarchies
    4. Organization Hierarchies
    5. Parties and Phones
    6. Preferences
    7. Product Hierarchies
    8. Reference Data Manager
    9. User-Defined Hierarchies
    10. Vehicle Parts Manufacture
    11. World Language Classification
      (with Oracle CONNECT BY)
  37. High School Football
  38. Highways Agency (UK)
  39. Hobbies and Pastimes
    1. Chess Tournaments
    2. Golf Tournaments
    3. Olympic Sports
    4. Swimming Clubs
    5. Sailing Clubs
  40. Holiday Homes
  41. Home Libraries
  42. Horse Racing
  43. Hospice Patient Care
  44. Hospital Admissions
  45. Hospital Outpatients
  46. Hotel Reservations
  47. HR or Personnel Department
  48. Houses and Rooms
  49. IAA Insurance Party
  50. Indigenous Peoples
  51. Icons of the Western World
  52. Inheritance Models
    1. Charities
    2. City Tourist Guide
    3. CMDB - Configuration Mgt DB
    4. Customers Commercial and Personal
    5. Event Registrations
    6. Games Store
    7. Insurance Brokers
    8. Libraries for Lawyers
    9. National Trust (UK)
    10. NewEgg
    11. Photo Catalogs
    12. School Management Systems
    13. Shrek 2 Movie
    14. Tracking Manufactured Items
    15. Travel & Tourism Worldwide
  53. Insurance Brokers
  54. Insurance for Vehicles
  55. Insurance (Personal)
  56. Intelligent Environments
  57. Interior Design Companies
  58. Internet Music Radio Stations
  59. Inventory Control
    1. Inventory and Equipment Maintenance
    2. Inventory Control (Files in Boxes)
    3. Inventory Control (Manuals)
    4. Inventory Control (Publishing)
    5. Inventory Control (Retail Store)
    6. Inventory Control (Sports Centers)
    7. Inventory Control and Pricing
    8. Inventory Control for a Pharmacy
    9. Inventory of Rental Equipment
    10. Inventory of Servers
    11. Inventory of Tooling Equipment
  60. Investment Banking
  61. Issue Tracking (Software)
  62. Jewellery Stores
  63. Job Scheduling
  64. Judges and Courts
  65. Justice Department
  66. Key Performance Indicators
  67. Kitchen Cabinets
  68. Knowledge Management
  69. Laboratory Management
  70. Land Registry
  71. Landscape Gardening
  72. Language Schools
  73. Law Enforcement
    1. Case Management
    2. Fingerprint Recognition
    3. Forensic Science Labs
    4. Global Crime
    5. Judges and Courts
    6. Justice Department
    7. Lawyers, Cases and Bills
    8. Libraries for Lawyers
    9. Police Generalized Data Model
    10. Police Departments
    11. Police Information Reports
    12. Prisons and Prisoners
    13. Tracking Evidence
    14. Traffic Cops and Tickets
  74. Lawn Bowling Clubs
  75. Legal Case Management
  76. Libraries
    1. Libraries Basic Model
    2. Libraries and Books
    3. Libraries of Digital Assets
    4. Libraries of Film Tapes
    5. Libraries of Sheet Music
    6. Libraries for Lawyers
    7. Libraries for Teachers
    8. Libraries for UK Schools
    9. My Library (for Amazon Web Svcs)
    10. Virtual Library for MyLifeBits
  77. Licences and Permits
  78. Limousine Services
  79. Loan Management System
  80. Local Govt (UK)
  81. Logistics
  82. Long Term Accommodation
  83. LSC Framework for Excellence
  84. Magazine Subscriptions
  85. Mail System
  86. Maintenance Contracts :-
    1. For Products with no Parts
    2. For Products with Parts (Dezign)
  87. Making a Movie
  88. Manufacturing :-
    1. Aircraft Orders and Parts
    2. Assets Maintenance
    3. Bill of Materials
    4. Construction and Manufacturing
    5. Customer Purchases Data W'house
    6. Paper Manufacturing
    7. Product Catalogs
    8. Tracking Customer Orders
    9. Vehicle Maintenance
    10. Vehicle Parts Manufacture
  89. Maritime Models :-
    1. Freight Forwarders
    2. Harbour Management
    3. Marine Archeology
    4. Maritime Museums
    5. Scuba Diving
    6. Swimming Clubs
    7. US Navy
  90. Marriages
  91. Mashups
  92. Master Data Management
  93. Medical :-
    1. Dietician Practice
    2. Doctor's Practice
    3. Health Center
    4. Health Insurance Claims
    5. Hospice Patient Care
    6. Hospital Admissions
    7. Hospital Outpatients
    8. Medical Laboratories
    9. Mortuaries
    10. Natural Disease Treatments
    11. Nurses Roster
    12. Nursing Home
    13. Patient Care
    14. Pharmacies and Generics
    15. Pharmacies and Prescriptions
    16. Pharmaceuticals Data Warehouse
    17. Pharmaceutical Supplies
    18. Prescriptions Database
    19. Stop Smoking Services
    20. Symptoms and Diseases
  94. Medical Laboratories
  95. Message Board for a Web Site
  96. MetaData Management
  97. Middle East Conflict
  98. Mobile Police Application
  99. Modelling Agency
  100. Mortuaries
  101. MP3 Music Site
  102. Movie Making
  103. Multi-Level Marketing
  104. Multi-Media Publication
  105. Museums (Simple)
  106. Museums (Complex)
  107. Music Lovers Communities
  108. Music over the Internet
  109. Music Performance Royalties
  110. Musicians in Newspapers
  111. Musicians in a Band
  112. MVC Model-View-Controller
  1. My Life New
  2. MyLifeBits Research
  3. My Work
  4. My Life and Work
  5. National Trust (UK)
  6. Native Peoples
  7. Natural Disease Treatments
  8. New Egg Web Site
  9. Newsagents
  10. Newsletters
  11. Not For Profits (NfPs/NPOs)
  12. Nurses Roster
  13. Nursing Home
  14. Offshore Drilling Equipment
  15. Olympic Sports
  16. Online Art Galleries
  17. Online Banking
  18. Online Gambling
  19. Opticians
  20. Oracle Data Dictionary
  21. Oracle Database Rpt
  22. Oracle PL/SQL
  23. Orders and Parts
  24. Organisations and People
  25. Organisations and Transactions
  26. Organisations,Members & Meetings
  27. Package Delivery Service
  28. Paintings on Loan
  29. Parking Space Registration
  30. Parties and Products
  31. Partners in a Firm
  32. Patient Care
  33. Payrolls
  34. Performance Monitoring
  35. Permits and Licences
  36. Personalization
  37. Personal Insurance
  38. Pharmacies and Generics
  39. Pharmacies and Prescriptions
  40. Pharmaceuticals Data Warehouse
  41. Pharmaceutical Supplies
  42. Philip Greenspun's Communities
  43. Phone Bills
  44. Photo Catalogs (e-Commerce)
  45. Piano Tuners
  46. Picture Library
  47. Pizza Deliveries
  48. Plane Spotting
  49. Police Departments
  50. Pool League Statistics
  51. Police Generalized Data Model
  52. Police Information Reports
  53. Popkin System Architect :-
    1. Data Warehouse
    2. Data Dictionary
    3. Generic Customer Model
    4. Hotel Reservations
    5. National Trust Visitors
  54. Portals
  55. Portals and KPIs
  56. Prescriptions Database
  57. Preserved Railways
  58. Prisons and Prisoners
  59. Products :-
    1. Bill of Materials
    2. Product Catalogs
    3. Product Categories
    4. Product Characteristics
    5. Product Distribution
    6. Products for Hire
    7. Product Hierarchies
    8. Product Servicing
    9. Products and Security
  60. Project Planning
  61. Project Staff
  62. Properties (National Trust)
  63. Properties (Real Estate)
  64. Property Development
  65. Proposals, Projects & Donors
  66. Pub Quiz League
  67. Pubs and Parties
  68. Publish and Subscribe
  69. Quantity Surveyors
  70. Quality of Life
  71. Questionnaires - Basic
  72. Questionnaires - Complex
  73. Questionnaires - Multiple Choice
  74. Questionnaires - for Marketing Surveys New
  75. Railway Reservations
  76. Ratings and User Reviews
  77. Real Estate Agents
  78. Real Estate Rentals
  79. Real Estate Sales
  80. Real World Series
    1. Generic Real World
    2. Overview of the Real World
    3. Real World of Entertainment
    4. Real World of Insurance
  81. Recipes
  82. Record Label
  83. Recruitment Agencies
  84. Reference Database
  85. Reference Data Manager
  86. Refugees & Asylum Seekers
  87. Removals Companies
  88. Report Generators
  89. Reservations :-
    1. Apartment Rentals
    2. Airline Reservations
    3. Car Hire
    4. Cinema Bookings
    5. Coach Trips
    6. Driving School
    7. Event Reservations
    8. Hairdressers Appointments
    9. Health Centers
    10. Holiday Homes
    11. Hotel Reservations
    12. Limousine Services
    13. Railway Reservations
    14. Restaurant Bookings
    15. Sports Centers
    16. Ticketmaster
    17. Vehicle Rental
  90. Resources Requesters
  91. Restaurant Bookings
  92. Restaurant Delivery Service
  93. Reviews and Ratings
  94. Risk Management (UML)
  95. Sailing Club
  96. Sales Commissions
  97. Salesforce
  98. Salesforce.dot.com
  99. Salesforce CDM Strategy
  100. Salesforce Data Integration
  101. Sales Promotion Analysis
  102. School Management Systems
  103. School Print Shops
  104. Scientific Research
  105. Scuba Diving
  106. Search Engine
  107. Search for a Data Model
  108. Search for Musicians in Articles
  109. Search for Items in Newspapers
  110. Septic Tanks
  111. Service Assessment
  112. Service Request Calls
  113. Shopping Malls
  114. Show Business
    1. Ballet Companies
    2. CD Collection
    3. Circus
    4. Clown Registry
    5. Dance School
    6. Talent Agency
    7. Theater Company
    8. ticketmaster
  115. Shrek2 Movie
  116. Single View of a Customer
  117. Snowflake Design
  118. SOA
  119. Social Anthropology
  120. Social Capitalist Awards
  121. Social Networking Sites
  122. Social Workers Case Mgt
  123. Spam and Junk Mail
  124. Sperm Banks
  125. Sports Card Collecting
  126. Sports Centers
  127. SQL Server 2008
  128. Staff Movements
  129. Star Design for Teaching Schedule
  130. Star Design for Transaction
  131. Stock Control
    1. Stock Control (Retail Store)
    2. Stock Control (Sports Centers)
  132. Stockmarket Data
  133. Stop Smoking Services
  134. Street Cleaning Schedules
  135. Street Traders
  136. Students :-
    1. Behavior Monitoring
    2. Church Sunday Schools
    3. Class Scheduling
    4. Credit Accumulation (Europe)
    5. e-Learning
    6. High School Football
    7. School Catering Businesses
    8. School Management Systems
    9. Student Accommodation
    10. Student Assessments
    11. Student Assignments
    12. Student Athletes
    13. Student Exams
    14. Student Exams in Saudi
    15. Student Loans
    16. Student Questionnaires
    17. Student Rosters
    18. Student Work Placements
    19. University Course Catalogs
  137. Surveyors and Contacts
  138. Swimming Clubs
  139. Symptoms and Diseases
  140. Talent Agency
  141. Tax Receipts
  142. Taxi Service
  143. Technical PC Support
  144. Telephone Bills
  145. Tenant Contact Tracking
  146. Theater Company
  147. Themes (Vertical Applications)
    1. CRM and Customers
    2. e-Commerce
    3. Education
    4. Entertainment
    5. Health and Fitness
    6. Law Enforcement
    7. Transport and Transport
  148. Ticketmaster
  149. Tour Guides
  150. Tracking Customer Orders
  151. Tracking Evidence
  152. Tracking Grants for Research
  153. Tracking Grants for Skills Development
  154. Tracking Manufactured Items
  155. Tracking Share Transactions
  156. Tracking Software Problems
  157. Tracking Tenant Contacts
  158. Traffic Cops and Tickets
  159. Transportation and Shipments
  160. Travel & Tourism Worldwide
  161. Treatments for Natural Diseases
  162. Trouble Tickets
  163. TV Electronic Programme Guides (EPGs)
  164. TV Talk Shows
  165. Tutorial on Database Schema
  166. UK e-Govt Standard Data
  167. UML Class Diagrams
  168. UN Global Compact
  169. Uniforms on Loan
  170. Union Grievances
  171. University Course Catalogs
  172. Used Flutes Exchange
  173. User-Defined Hierarchies
  174. User-Extendable Database
  175. User-Extendable DataDictionary
  176. User Portals
  177. User Portals and KPIs
  178. User Profiles
  179. User Reviews and Ratings
  180. User-Submitted Material
  181. Vehicle Insurance
  182. Vehicle Maintenance
  183. Vehicle Mileage Tracking
  184. Vehicle Parts Manufacture
  185. Vehicle Registration Authority
  186. Vehicle Rental
  187. Vets Practice
  188. Video Purchase
  189. Video Rental
  190. Volcanoes (Visio & Dezign)
  191. Warehouse Inventory Management
  192. Waste Management
  193. Web 2.0
  194. Web Site for a Community
  195. Web Site for DBA Site
  196. Web Site Analytics
  197. Web Site Pages
  198. Web Site Registration
  199. Web Site Traffic Analysis
  200. Web Sites for Hobbies and Pastimes
  201. Weddings
  202. Weighbridge Operations
  203. Wildlife Parks
  204. Wills and Families
  205. Wine Cellars
  206. Wiring Diagrams
  207. Workflow
  208. Worksheets
  209. World Health Organization STD
  210. World Language Classification
  211. Youth Church
  212. Zip Codes in Mexico
  213. Zoos


A Design Note on Primary Keys
My approach is very simple and always uses a system-generated unique number as a Primary Key, (except for Reference Data).
This is called a surrogate key, but there is a 'gotcha' which can be deadly. It is all too easy to enter the same record twice. Therefore you must always be sure to enforce a unique constraint on the natural key. Luckily this is easy to do in Access which can be a good basis for clarifying your design and constraints.

Why do I do this for free ?
I design these Data Models for free to give something back to the Database community that has provided me with a good (and interesting) living for the past 15 years.

Each Model is usually what I can do in the 20 minutes each day of voluntary work that I allocate from my consulting work.

My intention is to provide a wide range of 'Kick Start' Models that anyone can use as a starting-point, and could extend cleanly and logically, with appropriate reference to the Business Rules.

It is not my intention to provide Models that can be used off-the-shelf to meet the requirements of a large commercial organisation.
After all, that is one of the things I do for a living !!!

None of the Models is the complete and final solution in its area, but any of them can be added to easily and quickly to meet a specific requirement. The logic in each Model is correct and contains the minimum Entities for the area being modelled. It is easy to create a complex Model by combining these Kick-Start Models because they all follow the same design approach and standards.

Generally, I try to make the Data Models and the associated Business Rules consistent, but I don't always define the Rules because that is a very valuable 'exercise for the student'.
I'd be very interested in hearing any
suggestions for improving this facility. Here's a first draft of a page of French Data Models.
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