I recently posted a link to the Datanews article on the Kruispuntbank’s 20 year anniversary (Dutch, French), stating in a tweet that Okkam seems to be one of the few initiatives to deliver a similar infrastructure in the world of the semantic web. I received the following question:
Question via Twitter
The Kruispuntbank (or Crossroads Bank for Social [...]
Mayan glyph
I recently watched a National Geographic episode on the Mayans. It seems archaelogists are still digging up old Mayan pyramids, with amazing finds. One of the more difficult tasks encountered in studying this culture, is trying to analyze their symbols, written on walls, stone, cups and all sorts of items.
I was struck by one [...]
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For their X-mas, we delivered a Metadata Governance and Architecture Roadmap to the Flemish Ministry of Education and Training. Frans Decuyper, CIO of the Flemish Ministry of Education made the following quote about our work:
“Collibra’s metadata roadmap has become a fantastic tool and a bible for the Flemish Ministry of Education’s metadata initiatives [...]
According to Pieter, Business Semantics Management (BSM) is:
the set of activities to bring business stakeholders together to collaboratively realize the reconciliation of their heterogeneous metadata; and consequently the application of the derived business semantics patterns to establish semantic alignment between the underlying data structures.
The picture above gives a good overview of the two different phases [...]
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 [...]
…or to be more precise “Rene Magritte flirting with semiotics”. I spent my lazy Sunday (according to my sense of the word) at the new Rene Magritte Museum in Brussels (not to be confused with his birthplace house which is also a smaller museum about his life).
Magritte went through various phases of “his” interpretation of [...]