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The Data-Centric Revolution: Headless BI and the Metrics Layer
by Dave McComb | Business Case & ROI
Occasionally, I pick up on trends in my peripheral vision. These are trends that aren’t in the center of my professional field of view, but are out there on the edges. Obviously, these trends are in the center of someone’s […]
Semantic Arts future-proofs the enterprise with data-centric transformation programs
by Dave McComb | Data-Centric Architecture
99% of all enterprises shoot themselves in the foot every time they implement a new information system. The prevailing mindset, the “application-centric” mindset, guarantees that each new system introduces yet another incompatible data model into the firms datascape. It doesn’t […]
How to SPARQL with tarql
by Phil Blackwood | The Whiteboard
To load existing data into a knowledge graph without writing code, try using the tarql program. Tarql takes comma-separated values (csv) as input, so if you have a way to put your existing data in csv format, you can then […]
Incremental Stealth Legacy Modernization
by Semantic Arts | Data-Centric Architecture
In brief: A legacy system is older technology that is still in place and operating, held there by a network of complex dependencies, often hundreds or thousands of them, many undocumented. This post argues for modernizing legacy systems incrementally with […]
The Data-Centric Revolution: Data-Centric Accounting
by Dave McComb | Business Case & ROI
The column where Semantic Arts' data-centric accounting work began: building accounting on a knowledge graph with Cheryl Dunn, with every entry tied to a business event, debits and credits kept out of sight, real accounts, true flows, and facets.
SHACL and OWL
by Dave McComb | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
There is a meme floating around out in the internet ether these days: “Is OWL necessary, or can you do everything you need to with SHACL?” We use SHACL most days and OWL every day and we find it quite […]
What is a Market?
by Dave McComb | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
In brief: A market, as this post defines it, is a category based on a tacit agreement between a group of buyers and sellers about which selection criteria matter for an offering. Markets form when customers start choosing on one […]
The Enterprise Ontology
by Dave McComb | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
In brief: An enterprise ontology is a specification of the concepts an enterprise uses, expressed precisely enough that computer systems can interpret it and draw inferences from it, with the familiar terms attached afterward. Its purpose is to give all […]
Smart City Ontologies: Lessons Learned from Enterprise Ontologies
by Dave McComb | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
For the last 20 years, Semantic Arts has been helping firms design and build enterprise ontologies to get them on the data-centric path. We have learned many lessons from the enterprise that can be applied in the construction of smart […]
A Slice of Pi: Some Small Scale Experiments with Sensor Data and Graphs
by Peter Winstanley | Graph & Platform Strategy
There was a time when RDF and triplestores were only seen through the lens of massive data integration. Teams went to great extremes to show how many gazillion triples per second their latest development could ingest, and large integrations did […]
The Data-Centric Revolution: Fighting Class Proliferation
by Dave McComb | Business Case & ROI
One of the ideas we promote is elegance in the core data model in a Data-Centric enterprise. This is harder than it sounds. Look at most application-centric data models: you would think they would be simpler than the enterprise model, […]
DCAF 2021: Third Annual Data-Centric Architecture Forum Re-Cap
by Peter Winstanley | News & Community
Written by Peter Winstanley The Data-Centric Architecture Forum was a success! If growth of participants is an indicator of the popularity of an idea, then the Third Annual Data-Centric Architecture Forum is reflecting a strong increase in popularity, for this […]
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