There is a movement in the business and academic worlds to consider relabeling the name of the long-time data discipline of “Data Governance” to “Data Enablement”. Usually, when someone tells me ...

I was recently asked to present “Enterprise Ontology Design and Implementation Best Practices” to a group of motivated ontologists and wanna-be ontologists. I was flattered to be asked, but I really ...

We are in the era of graphs. Graphs are hot. Why? Flexibility is one strong driver: heterogeneous data, integrating new data sources, and analytics all require flexibility. Graphs deliver it in spades ...

It would be hard to imagine a data model that didn’t include persons, either as individuals or as groups. Models contain people in one of two ways: as organizational structures or as playing roles in ...

We are living in the age of a data revolution, and more corporations are realizing that to lead—or in some cases, to survive—they need to harness their data wealth effectively. The data warehouse, due ...

The Metadata Repository provides a single—albeit often logical—repository for gathering, integrating, storing, sharing, and visualizing metadata and its incumbent capabilities and structures. The ...

Recently, I was giving a presentation and someone asked me which segment of “the DAMA wheel” did I think semantics most affected. I said I thought it affected all of them pretty profoundly, but ...

Running a business with dirty data is like trying to drive a car blindfolded — it’s only a matter of time before disaster strikes. Dirty data doesn’t just create inefficiencies, it drains resources at ...

In my first article, I laid out the basic premise for this series: an examination of how Agile has gone from the darling of the application development community to a virtual pariah that nobody wants ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing industries by enabling real-time data collection and analysis from many connected devices. IoT applications rely heavily on real-time data streaming to drive ...

The term “data culture” is frequently used to describe a normative view about how an organization functions (or more precisely, should function) with respect to its data. The term is not particularly ...

You would think that after knocking around in semantics and knowledge graphs for over two decades I’d have had a pretty good idea about Knowledge Management, but it turns out I didn’t. I think in the ...