Enriching context of relationships through connected objects with ArchiMate
Hello - hope you are well. I am looking for advice regarding the representation and use of the relationship to relationship section in ArchiMate.
The ArchiMate standard describes the ability to create relationship to relationship in viewpoints, to add context to the relationship itself, used for data flow descriptions for instance. I wonder whether the way this is represented is flexible.
Today, this is the option we see in specifications and most diagrams:
I wonder if something like this would be acceptable (using a different dataset):
Main benefit would be that it removes clutter when lots of objects are connected to the relationship. We can imagine the data object icon to be used in front of each line of text on the line. In practice, this means the modeler would populate this information from the description of the relationship: the view would render this information.
Looking forward to hearing from you. Many thanks Claire