As promised in a previous post, find below our movie, which shows how current approaches of integration can lead to complex situations, and how Semantic Data Integration helps to manage this problem. The video was crafted by the people from Beshart, the culprits responsible for our logo and other wonderful works around Collibra. Hats off [...]
Collibra Island – zoomed out
I came across this some time ago, and it now reappeared via Google Alerts: the Collibra Island (to be found at 15°52′52″N 119°46′40″E). Zoomed out greatly in the picture on the right, you can see that the island is located in the Philippines, near Indonesia, Thailand and China.
Collibra Island – zoomed [...]
With this cartoon I illustrate semantics with as little words as possible. The scenario is as follows.
A trading company has an electronic data format about deliveries of goods. A new partner joins the network with a different format. For each of the symbols the data mapper needs to find out what they mean and how [...]
Today Pieter and myself got a nutshell overview of the Common European Research Information Format (CERIF) at the Departement of Economy, Science and Innovation (EWI). CERIF has been set up in the early nineties, and has been under the official management (i.e. as authorized by the European Commission) of the euroCRIS organization.
The aim of CERIF [...]
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 [...]