by Dave McComb | Aug 7, 2015 | Software Architecture
In the physical built world there is the concept of “human scale” architecture, in other words, architecture that has been designed explicitly with the needs and constraints of humans in mind: humans that are typically between a few feet and 7 ft. tall and...
by Dave McComb | Jun 25, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
The term “market” is a common term in the business industry. We talk about the automotive market, the produce market, the disk drive market, etc. And yet, what do we really mean when we use that term? It is an instructive question because very often CRM (Customer...
by Dave McComb | Jun 6, 2015 | Development, White Papers
This applies to URIs that a system needs to generate when it finds it needs to mint a new resource. I’ve been thinking a lot about automated URI assignment lately. In particular the scheme we’ve been using (relying on the database to maintain a “next...
by Dave McComb | Jun 5, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
Outlining three and a half ways that applications can have their schemas derived from enterprise ontologies. Many people (ok, a few people) have asked us: “what is the relationship between an ontology and an application?” We usually say, “That’s an excellent question”...
by Dave McComb | Jun 5, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
Loose coupling has been a Holy Grail for systems developers for generations. The virtues of loose coupling have been widely lauded, yet there has been little description about what is needed to achieve loose coupling. In this paper we describe our observations from...
by Dave McComb | Jun 5, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
Encarta defines veracity as “the truth, accuracy or precision of something” and that seems like a pretty good place to start. Our systems don’t model uncertainty very well, and yet that is exactly what we deal with on a day-to-day basis. This paper examines one aspect...
by Dave McComb | Jun 5, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
In this write up I’ll try to capture the tone of the conference, what seemed to be important and what some of the more interesting presentations were. This was the first ever Conference on Service Oriented Computing. In some ways it was reminiscent of the first...
by Dave McComb | Jun 5, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
As service oriented architecture (SOA) begins to become widely adopted through organizations, there will be major dislocations in the balance of power and control within IS organizations. As service oriented architecture (SOA) begins to become widely adopted through...
by Dave McComb | Jun 2, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
Although there are at least seven levels of granularity to “shared services,” little time has been spent to categorize these. My observation is that although there are at least seven levels of granularity to “shared services,” little time has been spent to categorize...
by Dave McComb | May 28, 2015 | The Whiteboard
The Linked Data Platform has achieved W3C recommendation status (which is pretty much acceptance as a standard) Linked Data Platform . There are some good hints in LDP Primer and LDP Best Practices . This is the executive two paragraph treatment, to get you at least...
