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A Data-Centric Approach to Managing Customer Data
by Phil Blackwood | Data-Centric Architecture
by Phil Blackwood, Ph.D. Without a doubt every business needs to have a clear idea of who its customers are and would love to have a 360 degree view of each customer. However, this customer data is typically scattered across […]
Dispose, Delete, and Discard: Keep your Enterprise Data Tidy Part 3
by Semantic Arts | The Whiteboard
Those who are familiar with Marie Kondo know that she is a ruthless disposer. If you’ve read parts one and two of this series, you know that the process is more nuanced than just “throw it all away,” but we’ve […]
The Data-Centric Revolution: The Role of SemOps
by Dave McComb | Business Case & ROI
What DevOps and data governance each do about quality, permissions, side effects, change, and traceability, and what that means for SemOps, the practice of moving ontology changes into production.
A Data Engineer’s Guide to Semantic Modelling
by Semantic Arts | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
While on her semantic modelling journey and as a Data Engineer herself, Ilaria Maresi encountered a range of challenges. There was not one definite source where she could quickly look things up, many of the resources were extremely technical and […]
A Brief Introduction to the gist Semantic Model
by Dave McComb | gist & Open Standards
Phil Blackwood, Ph.D. It’s no secret that most companies have silos of data and continue to create new silos. Data that has the same meaning is often represented hundreds or thousands of different ways as new data models are introduced […]
Setting the Stage for Success Part 2
by Semantic Arts | The Whiteboard
Envisioning Your Dream System with the Marie Kondo Method Before you begin gathering your belongings, discarding, or reorganizing, Marie Kondo asks you to envision your dream lifestyle. She insists that this is the critical first step to ensuring success with […]
A Mathematician and an Ontologist walk into a bar…
by Phil Blackwood | gist & Open Standards
The Ontologist and Mathematician should be able to find common ground because Cantor introduced set theory into the foundation of mathematics, and W3C OWL uses set theory as a foundation for ontology language. Let’s listen in as they mash up […]
The Data-Centric Revolution: Data-Centric vs. Centralization
by Dave McComb | Business Case & ROI
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 […]
Does your Data Spark Joy? Part 1
by Semantic Arts | The Whiteboard
Why is Marie Kondo so popular for home organization? Marie Kondo released her book, “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying up,” almost ten years ago and has since gained much notoriety for motivating millions of people to de-clutter their homes, offices, […]
The Data-Centric Hospital
by Dave McComb | Data-Centric Architecture
‘The Graceful Adaption of St Frances Xavier Cabrini Hospital since 1948. This post has been updated to reflect the current corona virus crisis. Joe Pine and Kim Korn authors of ‘Infinite Possibility: Creating Customer Value on the Digital Frontier’ say […]
Structure-First Data Modeling: The Losing Battle of Perfect Descriptions
by Dave McComb | The Whiteboard
In my last article I described Meaning-First data modeling. It’s time to dig into its predecessor and antithesis, which I call Structure-First data modeling, specifically looking at how two assumptions drive our actions. Assumptions are quite useful since they leverage […]
Graph Database Superpowers: Unraveling the back-story of your favorite graph databases
by Dave McComb | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
The graph database market is very exciting, as the long list of vendors continues to grow. You may not know that there are huge differences in the origin story of the dozens of graph databases on the market today. It’s […]
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