by Dave McComb | Dec 3, 2019 | The Whiteboard
At Semantic Arts we often come across ontologies whose developers seem to take pride in the number of classes they have created, giving the impression that more classes equate to a better ontology. We disagree with this perspective and as evidence, point to Occam’s...
by Dave McComb | Sep 4, 2019 | The Whiteboard
As I write this, I can almost hear you wail “No, no, we don’t have too much metadata, we don’t have nearly enough! We have several projects in flight to expand our use of metadata.” Sorry, I’m going to have to disagree with you there. You are on a fool’s errand that...
by Dave McComb | Dec 5, 2018 | The Whiteboard
At some point, there will be full stack data-centric architectures available to buy, to use as a service or as an open source project. At the moment, as far as we know, there isn’t a full stack data-centric architecture available to direct implementation. What this...
by Dave McComb | Aug 9, 2018 | The Whiteboard
Alan Morrison, senior research fellow at PwC’s Center for Technology and Innovation, interviews Dave McComb forstrategy+business about why IT systems and software continue to cost more, but still under-deliver. McComb argues that legacy processes, excess code, and a...
by Dave McComb | Dec 28, 2016 | The Whiteboard
Dave McComb discusses data lakes, schema, and data-centricity in his latest post on the Data Centric Revolution for The Data Administration Newsletter. Here’s a brief excerpt to pique your interest: “I think it is safe to say that there will be declared...
by Dave McComb | Feb 27, 2015 | The Whiteboard
In 2013 marijuana became legal in Colorado and Washington. It did not escape the notice of our clients that all Semantic Arts staff are from those two states. Suspicions grew deeper when we told them about the large collaborative knowledge base called Freebase. The...
