Financial Data Transparency Act “PitchFest”
The Data Foundation (Data Foundation PitchFest) hosted at PitchFest on “Unlocking the vision of the Financial Data Transparency Act” a few days ago. Selected speakers were given 10 minutes to bring their best ideas on how to use the improved financial regulatory information and data. The Financial Data Transparency Act is a new piece of... Continue reading→
DCA Forum Recap: Jans Aasman, Franz
How a “user” knowledge graph can help change data culture Identity and Access Management (IAM) has had the same problem since Fernando Corbató of MIT first dreamed up the idea of digital passwords in 1960: opacity. Identity in the physical world is rich and well-articulated, with a wealth of different ways to verify information on... Continue reading→
How to Take Back 40-60% of Your IT Spend by Fixing Your Data
Creating a semantic graph foundation helps your organization become data-driven while significantly reducing IT spend Organizations that quickly adapt to changing market conditions have a competitive advantage over their peers. Achieving this advantage is dependent on their ability to capture, connect, integrate, and convert data into insight for business decisions and processes. This is the... Continue reading→
DCA Forum Recap: US Homeland Security
How US Homeland Security plans to use knowledge graphs in its border patrol efforts During this summer’s Data Centric Architecture Forum, Ryan Riccucci, Division Chief for U.S. Border Patrol – Tucson (AZ) Sector, and his colleague Eugene Yockey gave a glimpse of what the data environment is like within the US Department of Homeland Security... Continue reading→
HR Tech and The Kitchen Junk Drawer
I often joke that when I started with Semantic Arts nearly two years ago, I had no idea a solution existed to a certain problem that I well understood. I had experienced many of the challenges and frustrations of an application-centric world but had always assumed it was just a reality of doing business. As... Continue reading→
The Data-Centric Revolution: “RDF is Too Hard”
This article originally appeared at The Data-Centric Revolution: “RDF is Too Hard” – TDAN.com. Subscribe to The Data Administration Newsletter for this and other great content! The Data-Centric Revolution: “RDF is Too Hard” By Dave McComb We hear this a lot. We hear it from very smart people. Just the other day we heard someone... Continue reading→
gist Jumpstart
This blog post is for anyone responsible for Enterprise data management who would like to save time and costs by re-using a great piece of modeling work. It updates an earlier blog post, “A brief introduction to the gist semantic model”. A core semantic model, also called an upper ontology, is a common model across... Continue reading→
Data-Centric Revolution: Is Knowledge Ontology the Missing Link?
“You would think that after knocking around in semantics and knowledge graphs for over two decades I’d have had a pretty good idea about Knowledge Management, but it turns out I didn’t. I think in the rare event the term came up I internally conflated it with Knowledge Graphs and moved on. The first tap... Continue reading→
A Knowledge Graph for Mathematics
This blog post is for anyone interested in mathematics and knowledge representation as associated with career progression in today’s changing information eco-system. Mathematics and knowledge representation have a strong common thread; they both require finding good abstractions and simple, elegant solutions, and they both have a foundation in set theory. It could be used as... Continue reading→
The ABCs of QUDT
This blog post is for anyone interested in understanding units of measure for the physical world. The dominant standard for units of measure is the International System of Units, part of a collaborative effort that describes itself as: Working together to promote and advance the global comparability of measurements. While the International System of Units... Continue reading→
