In this post, I’d like to review some of the challenges of using a shared or canonical information model for application integration. While a shared information model looks great in theory, it’s a tough exercise in practise. But by all means, solving these challenges is worth it because the benefits are significant. In a [...]
Since a month Collibra adopted a new work-flow to create video tutorials. These short videos are meant to support the end-user, lower the learning curve and make the knowledge acquisition about our products more attractive and fun.
After a couple of months trial and error a decent work-flow was found to suit our needs and rapidly [...]
Everybody knows the Pizza Ontology that has been used for ages now to demonstrate tools and methods in the Semantic Web community. Nowadays the Beer Ontology is gaining interest, and I wonder how many concept types the Belgian beer namespace will consist, as there is no clear enumeration of that Anyway, when talking about [...]
I recently read Booz Allen Hamilton’s lessons on social software in a blog post on ReadWriteWeb. Because a sustainable approach to semantics can only materialize via the contributing stakeholders, Enterprise 2.0 initiatives are important for Business Semantics Management (BSM).
This blog post briefly summarizes the lessons, read the article on ReadWriteWeb for more details. The 5 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Last week I went to the Semantic Conference in San Jose. Before I went there I was pretty new to the whole Semantic Web, so the conference gave me a chance to discover some interesting things.
One of the people I met at the conference is Peter Mika from Yahoo! Research. He is working on SearchMonkey, [...]