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What Is Knowledge?
Summary
Malcolm Chisholm discusses how knowledge is more complex than its usual definition and what it means for data.
Topics: Business Intelligence, Knowledge Management
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09-06-2011 |
What Is a Category?
Summary
Malcolm Chisholm explains the significance of categories in semantics and ontology, which are becoming increasingly important in data management.
Topics: Business Intelligence
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05-05-2011 |
Data Management: What is Abstraction?
Summary
Malcolm Chisholm discusses three common ways the term "abstraction" is used in data management and how misleading the term can be if not clarified.
Topics: Business Intelligence, Data Modeling and Design, Data Management
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04-04-2011 |
What Is Data?
Summary
Malcolm Chisholm discusses the origins of data and what the definition of data is in the modern sense.
Topics: Business Intelligence, Data Management
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03-02-2011 |
The Rise of Ontology: A Conversation with Felix Van de Maele
Summary
Is ontology real or is it destined to disappear in few years? That is just one of the questions addressed in this conversation between Malcolm Chisholm and Felix Van de Maele.
Topics: Information Management, Semantic technologies
by Malcolm Chisholm | 0 comments |
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29-09-2010 |
Is the SDLC Relevant to Data-Centric Projects?
Summary
There has been a shift from a process-centric view in application development to a data-centric view. Because so much has changed since the SDLC originated, does it really apply to what is being done today?
Topics: Information Management, Data Management
by Malcolm Chisholm | 0 comments |
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04-08-2010 |
Why Venn Diagrams Don't Work for Data
Summary
Malcolm Chisholm explains why we need to find techniques that are oriented specifically to data rather than borrowed from other areas of human experience.
Topics: Information Management, Data Management, Master Data Management (MDM)
by Malcolm Chisholm | 0 comments |
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02-06-2010 |
Reflections on Identity and Master Data Management
Summary
Identity is one particular problem in master data management (MDM). Actually, it is one of the key problems that MDM is trying to solve. But just what is identity, and why is it so difficult?
Topics: Information Management, Master Data Management (MDM)
by Malcolm Chisholm | 0 comments |
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07-04-2010 |
Analysis and Amnesia in IT
Summary
With fewer business processes to automate, surely we should need fewer analysts than we have in the past. What exactly are they analyzing these days?
Topics: Business Intelligence, Data Modeling and Design, Analytics
by Malcolm Chisholm | 0 comments |
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03-02-2010 |
The Data Audit Imperative
Summary
All data managers need to begin thinking in earnest about data auditing.
Topics: Data Warehousing, Data Modeling and Design, Business Rules, Enterprise Information Management (EIM)
by Malcolm Chisholm | 0 comments |
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02-12-2009 |
Shewhart, Deming and Data
Summary
Malcolm Chisholm says that a brief reprise of some of the ideas in Walter Shewhart's 1939 book is in order, along with W. Edwards Deming's comments, because they seem to relate not just to data quality, but to data itself.
Topics: Information Management, Data Quality, Data Management
by Malcolm Chisholm | 0 comments |
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04-11-2009 |
Master Data Management and the Challenge of Reality
Summary
Malcolm Chisholm reminds us that records cannot be created in the absence of governance with the expectation that they
can be matched up later.
Topics: Data Warehousing, Master Data Management (MDM)
by Malcolm Chisholm | 0 comments |
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07-10-2009 |
History, Truth and Data
Summary
In the spirit of trying to get to the point where it might be possible to ask some clear questions, rather than provide any answers, Malcolm Chisholm considers the relationship between history, truth
and data from a very general perspective.
Topics: Data Warehousing, Data Management
by Malcolm Chisholm | 0 comments |
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05-08-2009 |
Introducing Principles-Based Data Governance
Summary
A principles-based data governance approach will seek to replace poor existing principles with better ones and empower stakeholders to implement them without prescribing how it should be done.
Malcolm Chisholm explains how this will avoid creating bureaucratic overhead and give the enterprise a reasonable way to implement effective data governance.
Topics: Information Management, Data Quality, Data Governance, Information Quality (IQ)
by Malcolm Chisholm | 0 comments |
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01-07-2009 |
Rethinking Definition
Summary
Malcolm Chisholm explains that acknowledging definitions have to be captured rather than gathered, and that they can be continuously improved, will make them more valuable to the enterprise over
time.
Topics: Information Management, Data Quality, Data Governance, Information Quality (IQ)
by Malcolm Chisholm | 0 comments |
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06-05-2009 |
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