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The Data-Centric Revolution
by Dave McComb | Business Case & ROI
Every Data-Centric Revolution column Dave McComb has written for TDAN.com since 2015, in order, with a line on each, followed by the first column in full.
Human Scale Software Architecture
by Dave McComb | Data-Centric Architecture
In the physical built world there is the concept of "human scale" architecture, in other words, architecture that has been designed explicitly with the needs and constraints of humans in mind: humans that are typically between a few feet and […]
White Paper: How long should your URIs be?
by Dave McComb | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
This applies to URIs that a system needs to generate when it finds it needs to mint a new resource. I've been thinking a lot about automated URI assignment lately. In particular the scheme we've been using (relying on the […]
White Paper: Ontologies and Application
by Dave McComb | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
Outlining three and a half ways that applications can have their schemas derived from enterprise ontologies. Many people (ok, a few people) have asked us: “what is the relationship between an ontology and an application?” We usually say, “That’s an […]
White Paper: Veracity
by Dave McComb | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
Encarta defines veracity as “the truth, accuracy or precision of something” and that seems like a pretty good place to start. Our systems don’t model uncertainty very well, and yet that is exactly what we deal with on a day-to-day […]
White Paper: International Conference on Service Oriented Computing
by Dave McComb | News & Community
In this write up I’ll try to capture the tone of the conference, what seemed to be important and what some of the more interesting presentations were. This was the first ever Conference on Service Oriented Computing. In some ways […]
White Paper: How Service Oriented Architecture is Changing the Balance of Power Between Information Systems Line and Staff
by Dave McComb | Data-Centric Architecture
As service oriented architecture (SOA) begins to become widely adopted through organizations, there will be major dislocations in the balance of power and control within IS organizations. As service oriented architecture (SOA) begins to become widely adopted through organizations, there […]
White Paper: Shedding Light on the “Shared Services” Conversation
by Dave McComb | Data-Centric Architecture
Although there are at least seven levels of granularity to “shared services,” little time has been spent to categorize these. My observation is that although there are at least seven levels of granularity to “shared services,” little time has been […]
Linked Data Platform
by Dave McComb | gist & Open Standards
The Linked Data Platform has achieved W3C recommendation status (which is pretty much acceptance as a standard) Linked Data Platform. There are some good hints in LDP Primer and LDP Best Practices. This is the executive two paragraph treatment, to […]
How to build an Agile Enterprise Ontology webinar with Dataversity
by Dave McComb | News & Community
We recently conducted a webinar on How to Build an Agile Enterprise Ontology for Dataversity. Here are links to both the live recording and slides of the webinar from May 14, 2015.
What Will It Take to Build the Semantic Technology Industry?
by Dave McComb | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
I get asked this question a lot, and I'd like to get your help in answering it. As co-chairman of the Semantic Technology Conference, I see lots of customer organizations experimenting and adopting semantic technologies—especially ontology-driven development projects and semantic […]
Shirky, Syllogism and the Semantic Web
by Dave McComb | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
Revisiting Clay Shirky's piece on the Semantic Web A friend recently sent me the link to Clay Shirky’s piece on the Semantic Web with “I assume you’ve seen this, what do you think?” I had seen it, but I hadn’t […]
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