Monthly Archives: February 2009

The Semantic Wave: Messing Around or Hitting the Surf?

By Pieter De Leenheer | February 26, 2009

While we (= Collibra) are warming up and working out our showcase for SemTech09 in June in the Valley, Tony Shaw invited us to write an article for his revamped Semantic Universe blog. You can find the whole article here.
Here is the summary: In today’s business ecosystems, information has become a competitive and [...]

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Belgian Eclipse Community Meeting

By dtrog | February 11, 2009

Yesterday Hendrik from Sigasi and I organised the first regional Eclipse community meeting in Belgium. We had people from industry (Sigasi, Inventive Designers and Collibra) and academia (VUB students and a researcher from STARLab). Considering the very short notice on which we organised this and the “just-getting-to-know-each-other” intent of the meeting, this is quite reasonable.
We [...]

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A word on homonyms and synonyms

By dtrog | February 9, 2009

Homonyms cause major headaches for both humans and (especially) for computers. They are common enough to support them, but not that common to support them at every level. Most technical guys will never touch them with a 10ft pole. Since we are nice guys we support them up to an extent.
We should support homonyms at [...]

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Collibra offices

By Felix Van de Maele | February 3, 2009

It’s been about 8 months now since we moved to our first real offices. It was a great moment as it was only then that it started to feel real. After over a year of preparation, many sleepless nights, countless weekends coding away at Stijn’s appartment, reading loads of books on “the startup life”, marketing, [...]

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