Dave McComb

The Data-Centric Revolution: Best Practices and Schools of Ontology Design

January 2, 2024January 2, 2024Dave McCombThe Whiteboard

This article originally appeared at The Data-Centric Revolution: Best Practices...

The Data-Centric Revolution: “RDF is Too Hard”

September 8, 2023September 8, 2023Dave McCombThe Whiteboard

This article originally appeared at The Data-Centric Revolution: “RDF is...

Data-Centric Revolution: Is Knowledge Ontology the Missing Link?

June 29, 2023June 29, 2023Dave McCombThe Whiteboard

“You would think that after knocking around in semantics and...

The Data-Centric Revolution: Zero Copy Integration

March 8, 2023March 8, 2023Dave McCombThe Whiteboard

I love the term “Zero Copy Integration.” I didn’t come...

The Data-Centric Revolution: Detour/Shortcut to FAIR

December 8, 2022December 8, 2022Dave McCombThe Whiteboard

The FAIR principles for data sets are gaining traction, especially...

The Data-Centric Revolution: OWL as a Discipline

September 12, 2022September 12, 2022Dave McCombThe Whiteboard

Many developers pooh-pooh OWL (the dyslexic acronym for the Web...

Incremental Stealth Legacy Modernization

March 8, 2022May 20, 2022Dave McCombSoftware Architecture, The Whiteboard

I’m reading the book Kill it with Fire by Marianne...

SHACL and OWL

November 3, 2021November 3, 2021Dave McCombThe Whiteboard

There is a meme floating around out in the internet...

The Data-Centric Revolution: Avoiding the Hype Cycle

September 1, 2021September 2, 2021Dave McCombThe Whiteboard

Gartner has put “Knowledge Graphs” at the peak of inflated...

Smart City Ontologies: Lessons Learned from Enterprise Ontologies

June 29, 2021June 30, 2021Dave McCombThe Whiteboard

For the last 20 years, Semantic Arts has been helping...