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Sep 4 2024
The Data-Centric Revolution: Dealing with Data Complexity
There are many perennial issues with data: data quality, data access, data provenance, and data meaning. I will contend in this article that the central issue around which these others revolve is data complexity. Itā€™s the complexity of data that creates and perpetuates these other problems. As weā€™ll see, it is a tractable problem that [ā€¦]


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Author: Dave McComb

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May 1 2024
Data Speaks for Itself: Is Metadata Data?
Well, of course, metadata is data. Our standard definition explicitly says that metadata is data describing other data. So why would I even ask this question in the article title? The reason I ask it is because we seem to think about and manage metadata as somehow different than ā€œnormal dataā€ such as business operations [ā€¦]


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Author: Dr. John Talburt

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Mar 6 2024
Data-Centric: How Big Things Get Done (in IT)
I read ā€œHow Big Things Get Doneā€ when it first came out about six months ago.[1] I liked it then. But recently, I read another review of it, and another coin dropped. Iā€™ll let you know what the coin was toward the end of this article, but first I need to give you my own [ā€¦]


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Author: Dave McComb

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Nov 1 2023
The Art of Lean Governance: Walking the Data Factory
The concept of ā€œwalking the data factoryā€ drew a great deal of interest during our recent DGPO webinar on data classification as part of a holistic governance program. We discussed ways to connect the stove-piped worlds of data governance and information governance under a common governance classification. There is great power in lean governance when [ā€¦]


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Author: Steve Zagoudis

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Nov 1 2023
A Step Ahead: Categories ā€“ Boon or Bane?
Do you love or hate organizing papers and objects in your home? For those that hate it, why do you hate it? I like the results of organizing: reduction of clutter and ease of finding things. But I hate the process of organizing. The reason usually has to do with the fact that the object [ā€¦]


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Author: The MITRE Corporation

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Sep 6 2023
Data is Risky Business: A Wicked Problem This Way Comes
A recent data security incident in the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) got me thinking about the idea of wicked problems and data. The data security incident was the disclosure of the names, ranks, and job assignments of every officer and civilian support staff member in the PSNI. This happened due to ā€˜human errorā€™ [ā€¦]


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Author: Daragh O Brien

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Sep 6 2023
The Data-Centric Revolution: ā€œRDF is Too Hardā€
We hear this a lot. We hear it from very smart people. Just the other day we heard someone say they had tried RDF twice at previous companies and it failed both times. (RDF stands for Resource Description Framework,[1] which is an open standard underlying many graph databases). Itā€™s hard to convince someone like that [ā€¦]


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Author: Dave McComb

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Aug 2 2023
A Step Ahead: Data in Support of (Zero) Trust
Over the past year, the conversations around Zero Trust have begun to accelerate. Much of the discussion is akin to data mesh and data fabric where business owners and management are hearing the term and asking what a Zero Trust product is.Ā The term is also permeating data professionalsā€™ conversations.Ā This article provides a brief overview of [ā€¦]


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Author: The MITRE Corporation

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Jun 7 2023
Data Centric Revolution: Is Knowledge Ontology the Missing Link?
You would think that after knocking around in semantics and knowledge graphs for over two decades Iā€™d have had a pretty good idea about Knowledge Management, but it turns out I didnā€™t. I think in the rare event the term came up I internally conflated it with Knowledge Graphs and moved on. The first tap [ā€¦]


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Author: Dave McComb

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May 3 2023
A Step Ahead: Data Fabric and Data Mesh ā€“ Similarities and Differences
The terms Data Mesh and Data Fabric have been used extensively as data management solutions in conversations these days, and sometimes interchangeably, to describe techniques for organizations to manage and add value to their data. In this article, we intend to clarify these terms and explain the overlaps and differences to enable the readers to [ā€¦]


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Author: The MITRE Corporation

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