The truth is that despite the outsider’s perception that the world of technology just keeps getting better, faster and less expensive, over 70% of enterprise digital transformations fail to achieve their objectives (McKinsey, 2019). Most commentary on the subject points the finger at executive priorities, strategic goal-setting and organizational management. But the seldom discussed root cause of...Continue reading→

Interfaces and Interactions Too Much Specificity And Not Enough Play I recently saw this tweet and it reminded me about something I’ve wanted to think and talk about. Satnam continues configuration management has not had the attention enjoyed by academic research for languages and networking, as well as language and networking innovations in industry. I don’t think...Continue reading→

Many developers pooh-pooh OWL (the dyslexic acronym for the Web Ontology Language). Many decry it as “too hard,” which seems bizarre, given that most developers I know pride themselves on their cleverness (and, as anyone who takes the time to learn OWL knows, it isn’t very hard at all). It does require you to think...Continue reading→

We recently came across this great article titled “The greatest sin of tabular data”. It is an excellent summary of the kind of work we do for our clients and how they benefit. You can read it at The greatest sin of tabular data · A blog @ nonodename.com The journey of capturing the meaning...Continue reading→

More times than not we receive pushback on the use of RDF (the standard model for data exchange on the web) being difficult. However, the simplicity of triplestores (Subject – Predicate – Object) and logically composing queries with the written language make this form ideal for technical business users, capability owners, and data scientists alike....Continue reading→

Fused Edges If you are doing domain modeling and using a graph database you might be tempted to use fused edges. You see them around the semantic web. But you should resist the temptation. What In a graph database a fused edge occurs when a domain modeler uses a single edge where a node and...Continue reading→

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 with the measurement itself.” Link: The Data-Centric Revolution: Headless...Continue reading→

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 triples ready to load into a knowledge...Continue reading→