Welcome to the Dear Laura blog series! As I’ve been working to challenge the status quo on Data Governance – I get a lot of questions about how it will “really” work. I’ll be sharing these questions and answers via this DATAVERSITY® series. In 2019, I wrote the book “Disrupting Data Governance” because I firmly believe that […]
2021: Three Game-Changing Data Modeling Perspectives
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Common wisdom has it that we humans can only focus on three things at a time. So, I had to cut down my January 2021 list of things of importance in Data Modeling in this new, fine year (I hope)! Looking at them from above, as we […]
Will They Blend? Meeting the Semantic Web
Click to learn more about author Martyna Pawletta. Let’s see if we can serve pizza via the Semantic Web and an analytics platform. Will they blend? Ontologies study concepts that directly relate to “being,” i.e., concepts that relate to existence and reality as well as the basic categories of being and their relations. In information science, […]
SciBite Launches CENtree to Revolutionise Ontology Management for Life Sciences Organisations
A new press release states, “SciBite, the award-winning semantic technology company, today announced the launch of CENtree, an innovative, collaborative platform which revolutionises the way Life Sciences organisations manage and release ontologies. Ontologies play a critical role in semantic enrichment, enabling unstructured scientific text to be transformed into clean, contextualised data which can be understood […]
New Book: Demystifying OWL for the Enterprise
Morgan & Claypool Publishers have announced the release of Demystifying OWL for the Enterprise, a new book by Michael Uschold. According to the publishers, “After a slow incubation period of nearly 15 years, a large and growing number of organizations now have one or more projects using the Semantic Web stack of technologies. The Web […]
How Not to Get Lost in 2018 with Knowledge Graphs: Map, Graph, Go!
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Losing your way is easy. Much of Data Modeling in the search, analytics and reporting spaces have been focused on the fabulous five W-words. The hope is to try to answer the Why-question: We have been throwing technologies at this for quite some years now: Plain old […]
State of the Art of Data Modeling?
Click to learn more about video blogger Thomas Frisendal. When I googled “state of the art” “data modelling” (European spelling), I got: An Overview of State-of-the-Art Data Modelling – Events – ACSE – The An Overview of State-of-the-Art Data Modelling Data Modelling: Introduction and State of the Art – Springer Type Systems: Introduction and State of […]
IO Informatics Announces Updated Sentient Informatics Framework
by Angela Guess Rodj Martin of IO Informatics recently wrote, “The IO Informatics team is pleased to announce that our ‘Sentient’ informatics framework now includes enterprise architecture with unlimited horizontal scalability. IOI has developed major new enterprise scalability refinements for our newest Sentient version 3.0. IOI has worked closely with IBM, Cray, Neo4J and several […]
Aug 10 Smart Data Webinar: Organizing Data and Knowledge – The Role of Taxonomies and Ontologies
DATE: August 10, 2017, This webinar has passed. The recording is available On Demand. TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar No single approach to knowledge classification and access is best for every application. This webinar will help participants choose the […]
Ontology Plays a Part in United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Project
How do you define “basic services”? What’s the difference between them and “essential services”? What is meant by terms like “natural capital”, “raw material” or “essential medicines”? How do these all fit into an ontology? The truth is that there often aren’t universally accepted or precise definitions for terms like these – or even more […]