Not all data is created equal. Unlike structured data, which resides in well-defined fields and tables, unstructured data ...

Introduction Intelligent agents constitute task-oriented software that use artificial intelligence (AI) to achieve ...

Data is not just information. It is an asset — and it’s time our laws, markets, and institutions recognized it as such.” The Invisible, Most Powerful Asset in the Digital Economy In the 21st century, ...

It would be hard to imagine a data model that didn’t include persons, either as individuals or as groups. Models contain people in one of two ways: as organizational structures or as playing roles in ...

Entity relationship diagram (ERD) is one of the most widely used technique for data modeling. An ERD developed during the conceptual data modeling phase of the database development process is ...

We are living in the age of a data revolution, and more corporations are realizing that to lead—or in some cases, to survive—they need to harness their data wealth effectively. The data warehouse, due ...

On my recent trip to London I visited the House of Lords. Imagine how surprised I was to hear Lords discussing a data-modeling question. A government minister was defending a definition from his data ...

Running a business with dirty data is like trying to drive a car blindfolded — it’s only a matter of time before disaster strikes. Dirty data doesn’t just create inefficiencies, it drains resources at ...

Recently, I was giving a presentation and someone asked me which segment of “the DAMA wheel” did I think semantics most affected. I said I thought it affected all of them pretty profoundly, but ...

I was recently asked to present “Enterprise Ontology Design and Implementation Best Practices” to a group of motivated ontologists and wanna-be ontologists. I was flattered to be asked, but I really ...

Data quality is measured across dimensions, but why? Data quality metrics exist to support the business. The value of a… ...

This column presents a new model for licensing and sharing data, one that I call the “Decision Rights Data Licensing Model” (or the “Decision Rights Model,” in a shorter form) and one that has been ...