Can anyone recommend a good whitepaper, strategy, or book on this...

I am going to implement a project where I will be getting several very
different types of data from third-party vendors; the data will often be in
a format only understood by the third-party (encoded).  I would like to be
able to store the data in whatever form I get it in, plus a few key fields
for retrieval (e.g. date).  I'm curious about different architectures to use
when extracting the data...and at which points to allow algorithms (aka
plug-ins) to unencode the data for either presentation or transport to the
third-party via web services.  Loose coupling of the unencode algorithms
from the data is highly desireable since I may have to support lots of
unique data sets.

Amil

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