By Pete Stiglich Semantic Web technologies can strengthen data governance and stewardship by improving how organizations understand and connect their data. Rather than focusing only…
Data Rationalization and Semantic Resolution
By Pete Stiglich Describes how organizations reduce confusion and redundancy by rationalizing data and resolving semantic differences across systems. The article’s theme is that integration…
Database inferencing to get to trusted healthcare data
By Pete Stiglich Describes building a data-quality rule repository for a healthcare EDW program focused on ‘trusted data.’ The author explains storing configurable quality rules,…
The Semantic Web and Information Architecture
By Pete Stiglich Explains how Semantic Web standards (such as RDF/OWL and related querying) can strengthen information architecture by making meaning explicit and machine-interpretable. Rather…
The Semantic Web and Metadata Management
By Pete Stiglich The EIMInstitute ‘Current Issue’ listing describes this as the third installment in a series on the Semantic Web and Enterprise Information Management…
Normalization of Knowledge
By Donavon Gooldy Normalization is NOT an engineering exercise. The central principle that underlies its rules is that data redundancy, whether repeating groups of attributes or…
What is Data?
By Donavon Gooldy A leader of one of the consulting firms I’ve worked for in my career answered our title question by stating that “Data…
A Low Cost Big Data Integration Option?
By Pete Stiglich Argues that big data platforms are not a silver bullet unless organizations can understand and integrate their data effectively. After acknowledging typical…
