The Data-Centric Revolution: An Interview with Dave McComb
Are today’s economics of software projects and support inevitable? No. They are a product of the fact that the industry has collectively chosen the application-centric route to implementing new functionality. When every business problem calls for a new...
Six Enterprise Knowledge Graph Anti-Patterns
The truth is that despite the outsider’s perception that the world of technology just keeps getting better, faster and less expensive, over 70% of enterprise digital transformations fail to achieve their objectives (McKinsey, 2019). Most commentary on the subject...
Semantic Messages
Interfaces and Interactions Too Much Specificity And Not Enough Play I recently saw this tweet and it reminded me about something I’ve wanted to think and talk about. Satnam continues configuration management has not had the attention enjoyed by academic...
The Data-Centric Revolution: OWL as a Discipline
Many developers pooh-pooh OWL (the dyslexic acronym for the Web Ontology Language). Many decry it as “too hard,” which seems bizarre, given that most developers I know pride themselves on their cleverness (and, as anyone who takes the time to learn OWL...
The Greatest Sin of Tabular Data
We recently came across this great article titled “The greatest sin of tabular data”. It is an excellent summary of the kind of work we do for our clients and how they benefit. You can read it at The greatest sin of tabular data · A blog @ nonodename.com...
Software Development process expressed in a Knowledge Graph
More times than not we receive pushback on the use of RDF (the standard model for data exchange on the web) being difficult. However, the simplicity of triplestores (Subject – Predicate – Object) and logically composing queries with the written language...
Resisting the Temptation of Fused Edges
Fused Edges If you are doing domain modeling and using a graph database you might be tempted to use fused edges. You see them around the semantic web. But you should resist the temptation. What In a graph database a fused edge occurs when a domain modeler uses a...
Get the gist: start building simplicity now
While organizing data has always been important, a noticeably profound interest in optimizing information models with Semantic Knowledge graphs has arisen. LinkedIn, AirBnB, in addition to giants Google and Amazon use graphs, but without a model for connecting...