ArchiMate 1.0 Technical Standard

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Footnotes

[*] From April 2009, Telematica Instituut is called NOVAY.

[2] The latter relation is defined in Chapter 7 on cross-layer dependencies.

Downloads of the ArchiMate documentation, are available under license from the ArchiMate information web site. The license is free to any organization wishing to use ArchiMate entirely for internal purposes (for example, to develop an information system architecture for use within that organization). A book is also available (in hardcopy and pdf) from The Open Group Bookstore as document C091.