Category Archives: Metadata

Small semantic difference at “Bank van de Post”

By Stijn Christiaens | January 9, 2010

Earlier this week, datanews reported on an error that happened at Belgium’s Bank van de Post. The bank paid a couple of hundred thousands of customers a double premium, and had to reclaim the money. The source of the issue was the “aangroeipremie” (growth premium), which changed into the “getrouwheidspremie” (loyalty premium) on April 1st [...]

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“Three reasons why you need data governance”

By Felix Van de Maele | December 28, 2009

David Linthicum recently posted a brief article at ebizQ on Data Governance: Three Reasons why you Need Data Governance – Leveraging Information and Intelligence
It’s an insightful piece that clearly articulates the need for data governance. In short:

Data management in global 2000 companies is a nightmare which poses a risk.
Security requires data goverance
The move towards SOA [...]

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Delivering semantics

By Stijn Christiaens | August 5, 2009

This blog post is the first of a series of cases. It demonstrates how business semantics management can help in overcoming some basic semantic conflicts.
The situation
The situation is as follows: a supplier of cardboard boxes sends a delivery to his customer. Next to the actual delivery, they exchange information on the contents of the truck, [...]

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Reflecting back on Semtech 2009

By dtrog | July 7, 2009

Introduction
Reflecting back on the SemTech conference, I must always think of the lessons I learned at STARLab from my promotor Prof. Meersman. I learned about semantics from the perspective of conceptual modeling, with of course extra courses on logic.
I found the conference a great success and I learned a lot about new technologies. However I [...]

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Things happen

By Stijn Christiaens | July 4, 2009

A couple of weeks before we left for San Jose, Pieter went through the final step of his PhD: the actual defense. His jury was quite impressive: Prof. Dr. Robert Meersman, Prof. Dr. Viviane Jonckers, Prof. Dr. Bernard Manderick, Prof. Dr. Jean-Paul Van Bendegem, Prof. Dr. Hans Weigand, Prof. Dr. Martin Hepp and Prof. Dr. [...]

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The difference between syntax & semantics

By Stijn Christiaens | April 27, 2009

I recently came across a great cartoon that can best be described by seeing it. It is about formatting standards, evolution and the difference between syntax and semantics. I am happy to have received confirmation from the author to reproduce the work here. Please visit Maurice Lawles’ site for more of these.
The cartoon depicts the [...]

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Principles of ICT Democracy: can communities themselves build their ontologies ?

By Pieter De Leenheer | March 9, 2009

The second-generation Web (2.0) is a complex socio-technical system of unforeseen growth and dynamics. On-line communities emerge and interact all around a usually self-organising manner supported by interactive applications, including bookmarking, tagging, blogging, and wikis, being developed and shared at little or no cost. The emerging range of Semantic Web and other open technologies promises [...]

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Breaking down metadata management in its pieces

By Stijn Christiaens | January 24, 2009

Metadata is an essential instrument to making the most of organizational information assets, and organization-wide metadata management is needed to wield this instrument. In this blog post, we go beyond metadata management through a single tool or a set of federated repositories, and describe four essential dimensions that need to be taken into account.

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