by Dave McComb | Jun 29, 2021 | The Whiteboard
For the last 20 years, Semantic Arts has been helping firms design and build enterprise ontologies to get them on the data-centric path. We have learned many lessons from the enterprise that can be applied in the construction of smart city ontologies. What is similar...
by Dave McComb | Jun 2, 2021 | The Whiteboard
One of the ideas we promote is elegance in the core data model in a Data-Centric enterprise. This is harder than it sounds. Look at most application-centric data models: you would think they would be simpler than the enterprise model, after all, they are a small...
by Dave McComb | Dec 2, 2020 | The Whiteboard
We’ve been working on something we call “SemOps” (like DevOps but for Semantic Technology + IT Operations). The basic idea is how can we create a pipeline to go from proposed enterprise ontology or taxonomy enhancements to “in-production” as frictionlessly as...
by Dave McComb | Oct 14, 2020 | The Whiteboard
The COVID-19 pandemic is a clear example of how healthcare practitioners require swift access to enormous amounts of diverse information to efficaciously treat patients. They must synthesize individual data (vital signs, clinical history, demographics, and more) with...
by Dave McComb | Sep 2, 2020 | The Whiteboard
We just finished a conversation with a client who was justifiably proud of having centralized what had previously been a very decentralized business function (in this case, it was HR, but it could have been any of a number of functions). They had seemingly achieved...