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Application Scope: A Fractal View

The scope of an application is one of those topics that seems to be quite important and yet frustratingly slippery. There are several very good reasons for its seeming importance. One, the scope of an application eventually determines its size and, therefore, the cost...

Spectrograph

Last night at the EDM Council meeting, Dave Newman from Wells Fargo used spectroscopy as an analogy to the process used to decompose business concepts into their constituent parts. The more I’ve been thinking about it the more I like it. Last week I was staring...

How Data Became Metadata

Is it just me, or is the news that the NSA is getting off the hook on its surveillance of us because it’s just “metadata” more than a bit duplicitous? Somehow the general public is being sold this idea that if the NSA is not looking at the content of...

Semantic Tech meets Data Gov

Watch out world! Eric Callmann, a vet of data governance, recently joined the Semantic Arts team as a consultant. We like his fresh and unique perspective on how to use semantic technology to help manage the mass amounts of data that could potentially drive us all...