by Semantic Arts Admin | Jul 21, 2022 | The Whiteboard
While organizing data has always been important, a noticeably profound interest in optimizing information models with Semantic Knowledge graphs has arisen. LinkedIn, AirBnB, in addition to giants Google and Amazon use graphs, but without a model for connecting...
by Semantic Arts Admin | Jun 22, 2022 | The Whiteboard
Read more from Dave McComb in his recent article on The Data Administration Newsletter. “The data-centric approach to metrics puts the definition of the metrics in the shared data. Not in the BI tool, not in code in an API. It’s in the data, right along...
by Semantic Arts Admin | Jun 21, 2022 | The Whiteboard
Semantic Arts future-proofs the enterprise with data-centric transformation programs. 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...
by Phil Blackwood | May 20, 2022 | 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 use tarql to convert the data to semantic...
by Dave McComb | Mar 8, 2022 | Software Architecture, The Whiteboard
I’m reading the book Kill it with Fire by Marianne Bellotti. It is a delightful book. Plenty of pragmatic advice, both on the architectural side (how to think through whether and when to break up that monolith) and the organizational side (how to get and maintain...
by Dave McComb | Nov 3, 2021 | The Whiteboard
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 useful. It’s a matter of scope. If you limited your scope to...
