The Data-Centric Revolution: Chapter 2

Below is an excerpt and downloadable copy of the “Chapter 2: What is Data-Centric?” CHAPTER 2 What is Data-Centric? Our position is: A data-centric enterprise is one where all application functionality is based on a single, simple, extensible data model....

Semantic Ontology: The Basics

What is Semantics? Semantics is the study of meaning. By creating a common understanding of the meaning of things, semantics helps us better understand each other. Common meaning helps people understand each other despite different experiences or points of view....

What Size is Your Meaning?

It’s an odd question, yet determining size is the tacit assumption behind traditional data management efforts. That assumption exists because, traditionally, there has always been a structure built in rows and columns to store information. This is based on...

Are You Spending Way Too Much on Software?

Alan Morrison, senior research fellow at PwC’s Center for Technology and Innovation, interviews Dave McComb forstrategy+business about why IT systems and software continue to cost more, but still under-deliver. McComb argues that legacy processes, excess code, and a...

The gist Namespace Delimiter: Hash to Slash

The change in gist: We recently changed the namespace for gist from http://ontologies.semanticarts.com/gist# to http://ontologies.semanticarts.com/gist/ What you need to do: This change is backwards-incompatible with existing versions of gist. The good news is that...