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It Isn’t Architecture Until It’s Built
by Dave McComb | Data-Centric Architecture
It's our responsibility as architects to make sure our work is implemented. We've been dealing a lot lately with questions about what makes a good architecture, what should be in an architecture, what's the difference between a technical architecture and […]
Event-Driven Architecture
by Dave McComb | Data-Centric Architecture
Event-driven architecture as the latest buzzword in the enterprise architecture space. If you’ve been reading the trade press lately, you no doubt have come across the term event-driven architecture as the latest buzzword in the enterprise architecture space. So you […]
The Zachman Framework
by Dave McComb | Data-Centric Architecture
Shortly after you start your inquiry about software architecture, or enterprise architecture as it is often called, you will come across the Zachman Framework. The Zachman Framework is a product of John Zachman who has been championing this cause for […]
Architecture and Planning
by Dave McComb | Data-Centric Architecture
"Action without planning is folly but planning without action is futile." In this write-up, we explore the intimate connection between architecture and planning. At first blush, they seem to be completely separate disciplines. On closer examination, they appear to be […]
Time Zones
by Dave McComb | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
Reflections on low-level ontology primitives. We had a workshop last week on gist (our minimalist upper ontology). As part of the aftermath, I decided to get a bit more rigorous about some of the lowest level primitives. One of the […]
Application Scope: A Fractal View
by Dave McComb | Development
The scope of an application is one of those topics that seems to be quite important and yet frustratingly slippery. There are several very good reasons for its seeming importance. One, the scope of an application eventually determines its size […]
Spectrograph
by Dave McComb | The Whiteboard
Last night at the EDM Council meeting, Dave Newman from Wells Fargo used spectroscopy as an analogy to the process used to decompose business concepts into their constituent parts. The more I've been thinking about it the more I like […]
The Profound Effect of Linked Data on Enterprise Systems
by Dave McComb | Data-Centric Architecture
Jan Voskuil, of Taxonic, recently sent me this white paper. It is excellent. It's so good I put it in the taxonomic category, "I wish I would have written this". But since I didn't, I did the next best thing. […]
How Data Became Metadata
by Dave McComb | The Whiteboard
Is it just me, or is the news that the NSA is getting off the hook on its surveillance of us because it's just "metadata" more than a bit duplicitous? Somehow the general public is being sold this idea that […]
The Importance of Distinguishing between Terms and Concepts
by Michael Uschold | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
Editor's note: This guide brings together Michael Uschold's six-part series on terms and concepts, first published here as separate posts in 2013 and 2014. Each part is now a section of this page. In brief: A term is what you […]
Semantic Tech meets Data Gov
by Dave McComb | The Whiteboard
Watch out world! Eric Callmann, a vet of data governance, recently joined the Semantic Arts team as a consultant. We like his fresh and unique perspective on how to use semantic technology to help manage the mass amounts of data […]
Taxonomies—Formal and Informal
by Dave McComb | The Whiteboard
We were working with a client recently who wanted to incorporate their existing taxonomies into their newly forming enterprise ontology. It was, as they say, a "teachable moment." Not all taxonomies are created equal. At least not with regard to […]
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