Spectrograph

Last night at the EDM Council meeting, Dave Newman from Wells Fargo used spectroscopy as an analogy to the process used to decompose business concepts into their constituent parts. The more I’ve been thinking about it the more I like it. Spectrograph Last week I...

How Data Became Metadata

Is it just me, or is the news that the NSA is getting off the hook on its surveillance of us because it’s just “metadata” more than a bit duplicitous? Somehow the general public is being sold this idea that if the NSA is not looking at the content of...

The re-release of DBBO: Why it’s better.

I’m writing this on an airplane as I’m watching the South Park episode where the lads attempt to save classic films from their directors who want to re-release them to make them more politically correct and appeal to new audiences. (The remake of Saving...

Semantic Tech meets Data Gov

Watch out world! Eric Callmann, a vet of data governance, recently joined the Semantic Arts team as a consultant. We like his fresh and unique perspective on how to use semantic technology to help manage the mass amounts of data that could potentially drive us all...

Let the Semantic Technology hype cycle begin

Gartner has, finally, nominated Semantic Technology as one of their Top Technology Trends. We’ve seen this movie before. We know how it ends. Indeed it was Gartner themselves who named the plot trajectory: the “hype cycle.” It’s worth a pause...