by Dave McComb | Sep 8, 2023 | The Whiteboard
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...
by Dave McComb | Jun 29, 2023 | The Whiteboard
“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...
by Dave McComb | Mar 8, 2023 | The Whiteboard
I love the term “Zero Copy Integration.” I didn’t come up with it, it was the Data Collaboration Alliance, that came up with that one. The Data Collaboration Alliance is a Canadian based advocacy group promoting localized control of data along with federated access....
by Dave McComb | Dec 8, 2022 | The Whiteboard
The FAIR principles for data sets are gaining traction, especially in the pharmaceutical industry in Europe. FAIR stands for: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. In a world of exponential data growth and ever-increasing silo-ization, the FAIR principles...
by Dave McComb | Sep 12, 2022 | The Whiteboard
Many developers pooh-pooh OWL (the dyslexic acronym for the Web Ontology Language). Many decry it as “too hard,” which seems bizarre, given that most developers I know pride themselves on their cleverness (and, as anyone who takes the time to learn OWL...