by Semantic Arts Admin | Jan 14, 2020 | The Whiteboard
Person uses language. Person speaks language. Person learns language. We spend the early years of life learning vocabulary and grammar in order to generate and consume meaning. As a result of constantly engaging in semantic generation and consumption, most of us are...
by Semantic Arts Admin | Dec 26, 2019 | Guest Blog
Every company contends with data quality, and in its pursuit they often commit substantial resources to manage their master and reference data. Remarkably, quite a bit of confusion exists around exactly what these are and how they differ. And since they provide...
by Semantic Arts Admin | Dec 3, 2019 | The Whiteboard
At Semantic Arts we often come across ontologies whose developers seem to take pride in the number of classes they have created, giving the impression that more classes equate to a better ontology. We disagree with this perspective and as evidence, point to Occam’s...
by Dave McComb | Oct 29, 2019 | The Whiteboard
I’m at a graph conference. The general sense is that property graphs are much easier to get started with than Knowledge Graphs. I wanted to explore why that is, and whether it is a good thing. It’s a bit of a puzzle to us, we’ve been using RDF and the Semantic Web...
by Semantic Arts Admin | Sep 20, 2019 | Guest Blog
They say good things come in threes and my journey to data-centricity started with three revelations. The first was connected to a project I was working on for a university college with a problem that might sound familiar to some of you. The department I worked in was...
by Dave McComb | Sep 4, 2019 | The Whiteboard
As I write this, I can almost hear you wail “No, no, we don’t have too much metadata, we don’t have nearly enough! We have several projects in flight to expand our use of metadata.” Sorry, I’m going to have to disagree with you there. You are on a fool’s errand that...
by Semantic Arts Admin | Aug 20, 2019 | Guest Blog
In 1986 I started down a path that, in 2019, has made me a fledgling Data-Centric revolution practitioner. My path towards the Data-Centric revolution started in 1986 with my wife and I founding two micro-businesses in the music and micro-manufacturing industries. In...
by Semantic Arts Admin | Jun 25, 2019 | Semantics and Ontology, The Whiteboard
Who doesn’t like a nice flag? Waving in the breeze, reminding us of who we are and what we stand for. Flags are a nice way of providing a rallying point around which to gather and show our colors to the world. They are a way of showing membership in a group, or...
by Dave McComb | May 23, 2019 | The Whiteboard
In the past few weeks, Semantic Arts, hosted a new Data-Centric Architecture Forum. One of the conclusions made by the participants was that it wasn’t like a traditional conference. This wasn’t marching from room to room to sit through another talking head and...
