by Semantic Arts Admin | Sep 14, 2020 | Guest Blog
The Ontologist and Mathematician should be able to find common ground because Cantor introduced set theory into the foundation of mathematics, and W3C OWL uses set theory as a foundation for ontology language. Let’s listen in as they mash up Cantor and OWL …...
by Dave McComb | Sep 2, 2020 | The Whiteboard
We just finished a conversation with a client who was justifiably proud of having centralized what had previously been a very decentralized business function (in this case, it was HR, but it could have been any of a number of functions). They had seemingly achieved...
by Semantic Arts Admin | Aug 18, 2020 | The Whiteboard
Why is Marie Kondo so popular for home organization? Marie Kondo released her book, “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying up,” almost ten years ago and has since gained much notoriety for motivating millions of people to de-clutter their homes, offices, and lives. Some...
by Dave McComb | Jun 17, 2020 | The Whiteboard
Recently IDC predicted that IT spending will drop by 5% due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] Last week, Gartner went further by predicting that IT spending would drop by 8% or $300 Billion.[2] (Expect a prediction bidding war.) Both were consistent: highest hit areas...
by Semantic Arts Admin | Apr 28, 2020 | Guest Blog
‘The Graceful Adaption of St Frances Xavier Cabrini Hospital since 1948. This post has been updated to reflect the current corona virus crisis. Joe Pine and Kim Korn authors of ‘Infinite Possibility: Creating Customer Value on the Digital Frontier’ say the...
by Semantic Arts Admin | Apr 9, 2020 | The Whiteboard
In my last article I described Meaning-First data modeling. It’s time to dig into its predecessor and antithesis, which I call Structure-First data modeling, specifically looking at how two assumptions drive our actions. Assumptions are quite useful since they...
by Semantic Arts Admin | Apr 6, 2020 | Guest Blog
The graph database market is very exciting, as the long list of vendors continues to grow. You may not know that there are huge differences in the origin story of the dozens of graph databases on the market today. It’s this origin story that greatly impacts the...
by Dave McComb | Mar 3, 2020 | The Whiteboard
In our previous installment of this two-part series we introduced a couple of ideas. First, data governance may be more similar to DevOps than first meets the eye. Second, the rise of Knowledge Graphs, Semantics and Data-Centric development will bring with it the need...
by Semantic Arts Admin | Mar 2, 2020 | The Whiteboard
Last year, we decided to call the first annual Data Centric Architecture Conference a Forum which resulted in DCAF. It didn’t take long for attendees to start calling the event “decaf” but they were equally quick to point out that the forum was anything but decaf. We...
by Michael Uschold | Jan 16, 2020 | The Whiteboard
Google ontologist, Denny Vrandečić started a vigorous thread on the question of what constitutes a decade. See for example, the article: “People Can’t Even Agree On When The Decade Ends”. This, is a re-emergence of the question from 20 years ago on whether the new...
