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by Angela Guess Ken North recently wrote, “While ‘Big Data’ has been a hot button for venture capitalists and the trade press, there have been several years of progress in the ‘Biggest Data’ arena. The Semantic Web meme, with some prodding by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), has morphed into the Linked Data...
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by John Biderman I will be attending the 2011 Semantic Technology Conference (“SemTech”) in June on my own “vacation” time in order to further my knowledge of what is going on in this very interesting and exciting arena. I went to this conference in 2006 when it was only a few years old and...
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by Harry Biersteker and Ralph Hodgson Exchanging information between government parties requires a consistent, reusable and repeatable approach to specifying data exchanges as structured electronic business documents built from components. At the Ministry of Justice in The Netherlands, hereafter referred to as “The MoJ,” a new approach is underway to construct XML Schemas from OWL...
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by Neil Raden I haven’t been formally trained on WolframAlpha nor have I thoroughly investigated it. In fact, I’ve spent more time reading the hype about it than I have actually kicking the tires. But from the time I’ve spent, some things are already obvious. First and prominently, WolframAlpha does not rely on semantic technology,...
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By Paul Miller Semantic Technologies have much to offer today’s successful business, with regulatory, operational and economic forces combining to require that timely and accurate data from across the enterprise be available on demand and at the point of need. Clear benefits are often disguised, though, by obscure language, serious misconceptions about what ‘the Semantic...
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by Brian Schulte Master Data Management is now mainstream and those of us who have practiced it for a few years are battered, bruised and wearily displaying our scars. Typically defined as the people, processes and systems that govern the core data (e.g. products, customers, suppliers) needed to run a business, Master Data Management...
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by David Wood The next big thing for the data management community is to give up central control and planning in order to gain scalability and robustness. Relational database systems have been the backbone of enterprise information management since the 1970s. The increase in enterprise information to levels beyond what traditional relational systems can effectively...
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by Paul Miller World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee declared the Semantic Web ‘open for business’ in 2008, celebrating the ratification of the SPARQL query specification by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C); the organization of which he is Director. “I think we’ve got all the pieces to be able to go ahead and do...
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by David Newman We have witnessed over the years the progression from basic machine languages, to higher-level procedural languages, and then to object-oriented languages. Each advance introduced dramatic improvements in software capabilities that resulted in major leaps forward in fulfilling information technology requirements. We are again on the verge of another major advance in the...
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by Tony Shaw This post is devoted to “Semantics” and how semantic technologies relate to enterprise data management. I have a special interest in this topic both personally and professionally, so EDJ’s regular editor John Ladley has gracefully stepped aside to allow me to write the editorial for this issue. Thank you John. Full disclosure...
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