The Current Explosion of Data Catalogs
About 540 million years ago most of the animal body plans we see today suddenly appeared in a “relatively brief”…
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About 540 million years ago most of the animal body plans we see today suddenly appeared in a “relatively brief”…
Cataloging items has been a process used since the early 1900s to manage large inventories, whether it be books or…
Most data is not static. No, data has a life in which it changes, is used for perhaps multiple purposes,…
Weinberg’s Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.[1] Introduction…
In a traditional business model, core business assets included property, equipment, inventory, and cash. The tangible things we understand as…
Ensuring data quality is an important aspect of data management and these days, DBAs are increasingly being called upon to…
One of the rules in political science is to not let data drive your theories. In other words, one should…
Whether you’re opening a website or running a business, it’s very likely that you’re going to be using some sort…
This series of question and answers were prepared for a meeting with a client’s Corporate Communications Specialist. The purpose of…
Data managers, and others performing the role, often wonder why some organizations are able to get initial and ongoing budget…