by Peter Winstanley | Feb 25, 2021 | News & Community
Written by Peter Winstanley The Data-Centric Architecture Forum was a success! If growth of participants is an indicator of the popularity of an idea, then the Third Annual Data-Centric Architecture Forum is reflecting a strong increase in popularity, for this year...
by Phil Blackwood | Feb 24, 2021 | gist & Open Standards
We recently recast large portions of the telecom Frameworx Information Model into an Enterprise Ontology using patterns and reusable parts of the gist upper ontology. We found that extending gist with the information content of the Frameworx model yields a simple...
by Dave McComb | Feb 12, 2021 | Business Case & ROI
Let’s Stop Basing Capital Cost Decisions on Lagging Indicators. Remember the good old days of emerging digital technology? Accessing information through a dial-up internet connection. Saving data to floppy discs or CDs. Sending emails to have them printed for storage....
by Dave McComb | Jan 11, 2021 | 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 hundreds of applications, its meaning is...
by Dave McComb | Dec 16, 2020 | 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 come to the point in the process where it’s important to...
by Dave McComb | Dec 2, 2020 | Business Case & ROI
We’ve been working on something we call “SemOps” (like DevOps but for Semantic Technology + IT Operations). The basic idea is how can we create a pipeline to go from proposed enterprise ontology or taxonomy enhancements to “in-production” as frictionlessly as...
by Dave McComb | Nov 25, 2020 | 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 geared towards a more...
by Dave McComb | Nov 3, 2020 | 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 with every new software...
by Dave McComb | Oct 14, 2020 | Pharma & Life Sciences
The COVID-19 pandemic is a clear example of how healthcare practitioners require swift access to enormous amounts of diverse information to efficaciously treat patients. They must synthesize individual data (vital signs, clinical history, demographics, and more) with...
by Dave McComb | Sep 28, 2020 | 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 her...
