Dave McComb

The Data-Centric Revolution: Zero Copy Integration

March 8, 2023March 8, 2023Dave McCombThe Whiteboard

I love the term “Zero Copy Integration.” I didn’t come...

The Data-Centric Revolution: Detour/Shortcut to FAIR

December 8, 2022December 8, 2022Dave McCombThe Whiteboard

The FAIR principles for data sets are gaining traction, especially...

The Data-Centric Revolution: OWL as a Discipline

September 12, 2022September 12, 2022Dave McCombThe Whiteboard

Many developers pooh-pooh OWL (the dyslexic acronym for the Web...

Incremental Stealth Legacy Modernization

March 8, 2022May 20, 2022Dave McCombSoftware Architecture, The Whiteboard

I’m reading the book Kill it with Fire by Marianne...

SHACL and OWL

November 3, 2021November 3, 2021Dave McCombThe Whiteboard

There is a meme floating around out in the internet...

The Data-Centric Revolution: Avoiding the Hype Cycle

September 1, 2021September 2, 2021Dave McCombThe Whiteboard

Gartner has put “Knowledge Graphs” at the peak of inflated...

Smart City Ontologies: Lessons Learned from Enterprise Ontologies

June 29, 2021June 30, 2021Dave McCombThe Whiteboard

For the last 20 years, Semantic Arts has been helping...

The Data-Centric Revolution: Fighting Class Proliferation

June 2, 2021July 27, 2021Dave McCombThe Whiteboard

One of the ideas we promote is elegance in the...

The Data-Centric Revolution: The Role of SemOps (Part 1)

December 2, 2020July 27, 2021Dave McCombThe Whiteboard

We’ve been working on something we call “SemOps” (like DevOps...

Sharing Ontologies Globally To Speed Science And Healthcare Solutions

October 14, 2020June 16, 2021Dave McCombThe Whiteboard

The COVID-19 pandemic is a clear example of how healthcare...