The video below (now with beautiful audio) describes how you can use Collibra’s Business Semantics Glossary to get an understanding ofand agreement on payment. Starting from ISDA’s 1987 terms and definitions, the video gradually explains how you can add bits of meaning to different things, owned by different people, until at the end, the software [...]
During the Semantic Data Management workshop at the European Semantic Web Conference 2010 in Crete, my former supervisor and lab director Robert Meersman gave a talk with a fresh vision on how we should tackle the mass of (meta)data about communities (enterprises, business webs), people, and systems (incl. documents and media) and the links in between them with [...]
Malcolm has quite a history in information management, and is a regular speaker at international conferences in the field. Recently, he wrote a new book titled “Definitions in Information Management” (available at the companion website). I’ve reviewed the book (available at TDAN), and would recommend it when you are serious about information governance and / [...]
Setting the scene
The image below displays a simplified view of every large organization: an organizational border (represented by the outer circle), an HQ that needs consolidated information (represented in the inner circle), customers (represented by the “dollarized” houses), orders (represented by the trucks moving inside), order-processing units (represented by the factories that receive the trucks), [...]
Collibra has acquired considerable co-funding in ACSI, a European FP7 research project worth 5 million Euro. ACSI stands for “Artifact-Centric Service Interoperation”. The coordinator is IBM Research Haifa, and the kick-off of the project will be held in June at their premises in Israel. Details of the international consortium are below.
ACSI will serve to dramatically reduce [...]
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I recently came across Mike Ferguson’s work a couple of times (once at Enterprise Data World in San Francisco, and once at the Data Governance conference in London). As someone who has been active in the data world for sometime, he clearly recognizes the need to properly understand the meaning of your data through clear and [...]
Introduction
SBVR is an elegant standard, which combines research from linguistics, logicians and practical experience from consultants. SBVR is an abbreviation for Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Rules, and is one of the Object Management Group (OMG) standards. It is focused specifically at the level of business modeling for your organization’s (or even industry’s) business vocabulary [...]
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Jan Henderyckx sent this brief humorous clip on the Semantic Web. It comes from a presentation given at the O’Reilly Open Source conference in 2009, and provides a frightening look ahead.
OMG’s Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Rules (SBVR) is a standard for semantics. In business terms, this translates into clear definitions of key business assets. In operational terms, this translates into technical models and making sure that the (meta)data is understood and aligned. We illustrate the approach with a customer case from SCA Packaging, which [...]
After a short talk with Andy Hayler, which we met at the last IRM UK event, it’s clear that Andy knows the Master Data Management market inside out. During our pleasant talk, we discussed Collibra’s product, market positioning, and unique approach. He agreed that Collibra provides a lot of value for what people are starting [...]