Exploiting a Semantic Method
In this paper I wrote with Sylviane Cardey and Peter Greenfield we examine how a semantics based technique, MMS (Méta Modèle…
Data Quality News, Articles, & Education
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Data is Risky Business: The Customer Perspective
This article was going to be nice and tightly drawn, picking up on a single theme from my blog post…
From the Publisher – Happy 1st Anniversary & Questionnaire
With the July 2016 issue of TDAN.com, we celebrate our first year with the new format and new relationships. More…
Career Roadmapping
In following up on Dave Wells’ recent piece titled The Evolution (and Opportunity) of IT Careers, Jennifer takes a different…
It’s all in the Data: Data is Like Contaminated Water
What if the water that flowed through the pipes in your house or apartment was contaminated and you knew that if…
The Business of Data: Focus on the Data that is Important to Your Business
A key tenet of my information management practice is that any data strategy needs to be driven by the organization’s…
Start Data Governance by Protecting Your Data
There are many reasons why organizations design, develop and deliver Data Governance Programs. Typical reasons include – to improve data…
Mastering Data: An Algorithm to Clean Names
It has been a great challenge in many companies to preserve name consistency with written Latin characters in countries where…
Business Glossaries and Metadata: Governance of Enterprise Reference Data – Why Do We Care?
Reference Data Management often struggles to be governed as an enterprise data asset. Many organizations still view Reference Data as…
How to Avoid the Requirements Trap
Jason Williscroft has written elsewhere about sources of inertia that can send an EDM project sideways. In that piece he…