by Dave McComb | Jun 18, 2025 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
The year of the Knowledge Graph (2025) There are a lot of signals converging on this being the year of the Knowledge Graph. Before we get too carried away with this prognosis, let’s review some of the previous candidates for year of the Knowledge Graph,...
by Peter Winstanley | Apr 28, 2025 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
Team Building – The Importance of an Ontology Effective communication is something that many in the C-suite aspire to have in their organization. But what does this really entail in practice? At one level, it is about the high-level aspirations of the organization,...
by Peter Winstanley | Apr 28, 2025 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
From Labels to Verbs –Child’s Play! Watching a child acquire their first language skills is nothing like acquiring a new language. The 2-year-old is learning vocalisation, and also ensuring that they get the correct labels for the things around them. “Mummy”, “Daddy”,...
by Dave McComb | Apr 7, 2025 | Business Case & ROI
The Case for Enterprise Ontology I was asked by one of our senior staff why someone might want an enterprise ontology. From my perspective, there are three main categories of value for integrating all your enterprise’s data into a single core: ...
by Dave McComb | Apr 7, 2025 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
How a “User” Knowledge Graph Can Help Change Data Culture Identity and Access Management (IAM) has had the same problem since Fernando Corbató of MIT first dreamed up the idea of digital passwords in 1960: opacity. Identity in the physical world is rich...
by Dave McComb | Apr 7, 2025 | Data-Centric Architecture
Zero Copy Integration and Radical Simplification Dave McComb’s book Software Wasteland underscored a fundamental problem: Enterprise software sometimes costs 1,000 times more than it ought to. The poster child for cost overruns was highlighted in the book was...
by Dave McComb | Apr 7, 2025 | AI-Ready Data
A Knowledge Model for Explainable Military AI Forrest Hare, Founder of Summit Knowledge Solutions, is a retired US Air Force targeting and information operations officer who now works with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). His experience includes...
by Dave McComb | Apr 7, 2025 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
How US Homeland Security Plans to Use Knowledge Graph During this summer’s Data Centric Architecture Forum, Ryan Riccucci, Division Chief for U.S. Border Patrol – Tucson (AZ) Sector, and his colleague Eugene Yockey gave a glimpse of what the data environment is...
by Dave McComb | Apr 7, 2025 | Data-Centric Architecture
SIX AXES OF DECOUPLING 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...
by Dave McComb | Mar 21, 2025 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
Documents, Events and Actions We have recently been reexamining the weird relationship of “documents” to “events” in enterprise information systems and have surfaced some new insights that are worth sharing. Documents and Events ...
