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The 1st Annual Data-Centric Architecture Forum: Re-Cap
by Dave McComb | News & Community
In the past few weeks, we (the author’s company) hosted a new Data-Centric Architecture Conference. One of the conclusions made by the participants was that it wasn’t like a traditional conference. This wasn’t marching from room to room to sit […]
The Data-Centric Revolution: Chapter 2
by Dave McComb | Business Case & ROI
Below is an excerpt and downloadable copy of the “Chapter 2: What is Data-Centric?” CHAPTER 2 What is Data-Centric? Our position is: A data-centric enterprise is one where all application functionality is based on a single, simple, extensible data model. […]
Semantic Ontology: The Basics
by Dave McComb | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
What is Semantics? Semantics is the study of meaning. By creating a common understanding of the meaning of things, semantics helps us better understand each other. Common meaning helps people understand each other despite different experiences or points of view. […]
White Paper: The Value of Using Knowledge Graphs in Some Common Use Cases
by Dave McComb | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
We’ve been asked to comment on the applicability of Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Technology in service of a couple of common use cases. We will draw on our own experience with client projects as well as some examples we have […]
Field Report from the First Annual Data-Centric Architecture Conference
by Dave McComb | News & Community
Our Data-Centric Architecture conference a couple weeks ago was pretty incredible. I don’t think I’ve ever participated in a single intense, productive conversation with 20 people that lasted 2 1/2 days, with hardly a let up. Great energy, very balanced […]
What Size is Your Meaning?
by Semantic Arts | Data-Centric Architecture
It’s an odd question, yet determining size is the tacit assumption behind traditional data management efforts. That assumption exists because, traditionally, there has always been a structure built in rows and columns to store information. This is based on physical […]
What will we talk about at the Data-Centric Conference?
by Dave McComb | News & Community
“The knowledge graph is the only currently implementable and sustainable way for businesses to move to the higher level of integration needed to make data truly useful for a business.” You may be wondering what some of our Data-Centric Conference panel […]
The Data-Centric Revolution: Implementing a Data-Centric Architecture
by Dave McComb | Business Case & ROI
Dave McComb returns to The Data Administration Newsletter with news of roll-your-own data-centric architecture stacks. Rather, he makes an introduction to what the early adopters of data-centric architectures will need to undertake the data-centric revolution and make such a necessary […]
Are You Spending Way Too Much on Software?
by Dave McComb | The Whiteboard
Alan Morrison, senior research fellow at PwC’s Center for Technology and Innovation, interviews Dave McComb forstrategy+business about why IT systems and software continue to cost more, but still under-deliver. McComb argues that legacy processes, excess code, and a mind-set that […]
The gist Namespace Delimiter: Hash to Slash
by Dave McComb | gist & Open Standards
The change in gist: We recently changed the namespace for gist from http://ontologies.semanticarts.com/gist# to http://ontologies.semanticarts.com/gist/ What you need to do: This change is backwards-incompatible with existing versions of gist. The good news is that the changes needed are straightforward. To […]
Data-Centric vs. Application-Centric
by Dave McComb | Data-Centric Architecture
Data-Centric vs. Software Wasteland Dave McComb’s new book “Software Wasteland: How the Application-Centric Mindset is Hobbling our Enterprises” has just been released. In it, I make this case that the opposite of Data-Centric is Application Centric, and our preoccupation with […]
A Tale of Two Projects
by Dave McComb | Business Case & ROI
If someone has a $100 million project, the last thing that would occur to them would be to launch a second project in parallel using different methods to see which method works better. That would seem to be insane, almost […]
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