Facilitating Information Sharing Using Metadata
Published in TDAN.com April 2006 Information sharing has consistently been a significant problem across government and industry. Once IT portfolios…
Are You Stuck In BI Adolescence?
Published in TDAN.com April 2006 Most organizations today are stuck in the adolescent phase of business intelligence (BI). They’ve built…
Data Integrity – Pay Now, Or Pay Later
Published in TDAN.com April 2006 A fundamental requirement for any database application is to ensure that data is inserted, updated…
Data Modeling, RDF, & OWL – Part One: An Introduction To Ontologies
Published in TDAN.com April 2006 [This is the first of three articles discussing the new/old ideas of semantics and ontology…
Implementing Data Quality Through Metadata, Part 1
Published in TDAN.com April 2006 A special thanks to Mike Jennings for his invaluable contribution to this month’s column How…
Reflections On Knowledge Capture
Published in TDAN.com April 2006 The topic that is interesting to me lately is Knowledge Capture. A common refrain I…
Conceptual, Logical, Physical: Clearing the Confusion
Published in TDAN.com April 2006 Written by Graeme Simsion – Simsion & Associates / University of Melbourne[1] By subtitling this…
Best Practices In Metadata Management – An Overview
Published in TDAN.com April 2006 Introduction Literally “data about data”, metadata is a concept that is receiving increased visibility throughout…
Another Metadata Secret: The Metacard
Published in TDAN.com April 2006 Organizational information sources exist throughout the enterprise and the vast majority of these sources are…
Unwired Tap – April 2006
Published in TDAN.com April 2006 In recent columns I’ve written about convergence. Wireless technologies are converging. Wireless devices are converging. …