Unwired Tap – October 2007
A review of the media coverage of WiFi and other wireless and digital living current events.
Data Education
Eye On TDWI – August 2007
One of the first things that I do when I write an installment of “Eye” is reflect on what I…
The Socialization of Knowledge
This article is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, Business Metadata, to be published on or about September, 2007, co-authored…
Enterprise Architecture: Connect-the-Dots for Adults, Part 1
Developing an enterprise architecture can be viewed as connect-the-dots for adults. However, in doing so, all you get is a…
Why Data Models Do Not Work: The Role of Reference Data
There is an urgent need to acknowledge the limitations of data models and find a way to bridge the logical-physical…
The Data Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Chapter 6
Published in TDAN.com July 2007 Editor’s note: Following are links to all of the articles in this series: Part 1,…
Data Integration Requires Trust
When there is a lack of trust, there may be unnecessary boundaries and political obstacles that are the underlying causes…
What Does Manage Your Data and Information Assets Mean?
For data and information to rise to the level of capital and people as assets in the eyes of the…
Data Structure: Data Modeling or XML?
XML is a perfectly good vehicle for describing data to be transmitted from one place to another. It is not…
Terminology, Semantics and the Meanings of Names
Basic terminology principles help to understand how naming conventions can be formed and then applied to relate the meanings of…