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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. It’s the complexity of data that creates and perpetuates these other problems. As we’ll see, it is a tractable problem that […]


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Author: Dave McComb

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Jun 5 2024
The Data-Centric Revolution: Who Doesn’t Need Data-Centric?
Several years ago, as part of some strategic marketing, we decided to target certain companies and industries. The thinking was and is, that certain sectors are inherently more amenable to the economic arguments behind the data-centric approach. We didn’t do any market research, didn’t do any surveys, didn’t purchase any reports or data, we just […]


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Author: Dave McComb

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Mar 6 2024
Data-Centric: How Big Things Get Done (in IT)
I read “How Big Things Get Done” 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. I’ll let you know what the coin was toward the end of this article, but first I need to give you my own […]


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Author: Dave McComb

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Dec 20 2023
The Data-Centric Revolution: Best Practices and Schools of Ontology Design
I was recently asked to present “Enterprise Ontology Design and Implementation Best Practices” to a group of motivated ontologists and wanna-be ontologists. I was flattered to be asked, but I really had to pause for a bit. First, I’m kind of jaded by the term “best practices.” Usually, it’s just a summary of what everyone […]


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Author: Dave McComb

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Sep 6 2023
The Data-Centric Revolution: “RDF is Too Hard”
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). It’s hard to convince someone like that […]


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Author: Dave McComb

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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 I’d have had a pretty good idea about Knowledge Management, but it turns out I didn’t. I think in the rare event the term came up I internally conflated it with Knowledge Graphs and moved on. The first tap […]


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Author: Dave McComb

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