A New Way of Thinking – October 2006
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 The concept of a “federated community” has started to pop up in a number of…
Data Education
The Data Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Chapter 3
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 Editor’s note: Following are links to all of the articles in this series: Part 1,…
A Bit More On Defining Keys
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 In an article by Mr. James P. O’Brien (Maximum Business Solutions) the author outlined desirable…
The Semantic Model: A Basis For Understanding and Implementing Data Warehouse Requirements
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 Overview What is a Semantic Model? The use of a semantic model as a fundamental…
DAMA Corner – October 2006
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 Ever experienced this? The phone rings and you hear that a database table needs to…
Enabling a Business Intelligence Self-Service Platform Across The Enterprise
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 Background Throughout the years, I have been witness to many Data Warehousing projects that started…
Bringing Business and IT Together – Part 3
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 Articles in this series – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 This is the third…
Managing Data Names, Value Domains, Abbreviations and Definitions
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 The Data Naming Problem What’s in a name? Most commonly, the idea is that a…
Proactive Performance for the Data Warehouse
Diseases are named either after the doctor who discovers the disease (Alzheimer’s, Crohn’s,) or after the unfortunate patient on whom…
Data Modeling, RDF, & OWL – Part Three: Converting Data Model Relationships to OWL
Published in TDAN.com October 2006 [This is the third of three articles discussing the new/old ideas of semantics and ontology…