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 [...]
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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), [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
A couple of days ago, I got the question what it takes for organizations to adopt business semantics. Except for a set of good semantic tools backed by an agile and step-wise methodology, the organization also has to have a certain information maturity level. The Meta Group (acquired by Gartner) defined an Information Maturity Model [...]
On Wednesday, November 25th, DAMA BeLux organizes their next conference. This time, it is hosted by Deloitte and SAP, and the event is held at the SAP Lounge in Vilvoorde (Laurent-Benoit Dewezplein 5, Vilvoorde).
The agenda is strong, and contain traces of semantics here and there:
Enterprise Model Engineering: Ensuring Quality in Information Systems Dr. Monique Snoeck, Professor, KU [...]
Collibra at IRM’s DM&IQ and DW&BI conference
Last Tuesday and Wednesday, Collibra presented its Business Semantics Management to a wider audience of very experienced data management, data governance and BI professionals. We got great feedback and a lot of enthusiastic reactions (ranging from ‘brilliant’ to ‘this is what companies should have been doing already 20 years [...]