Extending an upper-level ontology (like GIST)
Michael Sullivan is a Principle Cloud Solutions Architect at Oracle. Article reprinted with permission (original is here) If you have been following my blogs over the past year or so they you will know I am a big fan of adopting an upper-level ontology to help bootstrap your own bespoke ontology project. Of the available...Continue reading→
The Data-Centric Revolution: Zero Copy Integration
I love the term “Zero Copy Integration.” I didn’t come up with it, it was the Data Collaboration Alliance, that came up with that one. The Data Collaboration Alliance is a Canadian based advocacy group promoting localized control of data along with federated access. What I like about the term is how evocative it is....Continue reading→
Knowledge Graph Modeling: Time series micro-pattern using GIST
Michael Sullivan is a Principle Cloud Solutions Architect at Oracle. Article reprinted with permission (original is here) For any enterprise, being able to model time series is more than just important, in many cases it is critical. There are many examples but some trivial ones include “Person is employed By Employer” (Employment date-range), “Business has...Continue reading→
Alan Morrison: Zero-Copy Integration and Radical Simplification
Dave McComb’s book Software Wasteland underscored a fundamental problem: Enterprise software sometimes costs 1,000 times more than it ought to. The poster child for cost overruns was highlighted in the book was Healthcare.gov, a public registration system for the US Affordable Care Act, enacted in 2010. By 2018, the US Federal government had spent $2.1...Continue reading→
The Data-Centric Revolution: An Interview with Dave McComb
Are today’s economics of software projects and support inevitable? No. They are a product of the fact that the industry has collectively chosen the application-centric route to implementing new functionality. When every business problem calls for a new application and every new application comes with its own database, what you really get is runaway complexity....Continue reading→
Six Enterprise Knowledge Graph Anti-Patterns
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→
Semantic Messages
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→
The Data-Centric Revolution: OWL as a Discipline
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→
The Greatest Sin of Tabular Data
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→
