ArchiMate is not a language

ArchiMate has been labeled an `architecture language'. It certainly has aspects of a language. The combination of actors, behaviours and acted-upon objects resembles subject-verb-object of a normal language. And that is intentional: the designers of the language had this in…

On the Use of Colours in ArchiMate

The official ArchiMate 1.0 spec is colourless. The original ArchiMate project of Telin (Telematica Instituut) used colours, though they were never a part of the spec, they were a more something of a custom. Two different schemes using the original…