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<h1>The BIRD Implementation Generator (BIG) Idea</h1>
<h2>Automatically Generating Usable IT Implementations From the Published Artefacts of BIRD</h2>
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<h2>BIRD is not an IT Solution</h2>
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BIRD (the Banks Integrated Reporting Dictionary) is a description, created by a collaboration of European banks, Central banks , and managed by the ECB. <br><br>
BIRD does not make technology choices/restrictions. <br><br>
BIRD describes Regulatory Domain Knowledge (Data Models and Transformations) in a concise machine-readable format available from the API or meta-data extracts (CSV files). <br><br>
As an analogy, BIRD is a seed that encodes the knowledge to build a tree in a concise format (DNA).
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<h2>However, implementation is an IT solution</h2>
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A technical implementation is the usable implementation for the domain, with the technical components that users require to do their job.<br><br>
Examples of such technical components include a data store and a calculation engine.<br><br>
If we imagine a the technical implementation as a tree grown from seed, we can imagine these components as branches of the tree.<br><br>
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<h2>Generating a technical implementation</h2>
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We follow the DRY principle, Don't Repeat yourself.<br><br>
Auto-generation of software artefacts from core definitions is the predominant mode of software engineering today.
Gone are the days when database structures, user interface and data base communication, and data-aware forms need to be hand-crafted individually for each domain concept such as a 'loan'. Instead we define once and generate different the required technical components.<br><br>
<a href="big_workbench.html">BIG Studios</a> are software applications that enable users to run a guided set of steps to generate technical implementations of BIRD from the published BIRD artefacts.<br><br>
The technical implementations are usually configurations of existing stable mature technologies that have many developers and developer resources available.<br><br>
All BIG Studios are based on concepts and components described in the <a href="big_core.html">BIG Core </a>.<br><br>
The <a href="big_workbench.html">BIG Open Studio</a> provides a single place with tools to automatically generate a technical implementation that creates a configuration of the mature Eclipse Rich Client Platform. This usable configuration is called the Free BIRD Platform.<br><br>
Other workbenches could be created using the <a href="big_core.html">BIG Core </a> to create configurations of other technical platforms.<br><br>
We can consider as an analogy that a tree needs a pot of soil to grow, and that putting a seed in a different pot might grow a slightly different tree. <br><br>
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<h2>What is BIRD?</h2>
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