by Dave McComb | Oct 20, 2014 | Semantics and Ontology
Perhaps the way to be ready for resolution is to flip from document-centric to data-centric. Build a system that expresses in real time, the on-going agreements between the many legal entities within the firm. Capture who is doing what for whom. We just completed a...
by Dave McComb | Oct 17, 2014 | The Whiteboard
We’ve found ourselves working with D3(d3js.org) more and more lately, both for clients and for our own projects. So far we’ve really just begun to scratch the surface of what it can do (if you’re unfamiliar, take a moment to browse the examples)....
by Dave McComb | Sep 12, 2014 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
At the time of this writing almost no enterprises in North America have a formal enterprise ontology. Yet we believe that within a few years this will become one of the foundational pieces to most information system work within major enterprises. In this paper, we...
by Dave McComb | Aug 29, 2014 | The Whiteboard
Gist is based on something we call “concrete abstractions” Most upper level ontologies are based on “abstract abstractions” that is, they are based on philosophical ideas that might be correct but are counter productive to try to...
by Dave McComb | Jul 25, 2014 | Software Architecture
A Playbook you Don’t want to Follow A while back, I was working for a large consulting firm. When I was returning to the US from an overseas assignment, I was allowed to select the city I would return to. I told my boss, who was on the board of this firm, my...
