Click to learn more about author John Singer. When designing your Knowledge Maps it certainly helps to have some interesting questions that you are trying to answer. (See Knowledge Maps – How to Ask a Data Question). “Build it and they will come” approaches didn’t work very well for data warehouse and BI efforts and the […]
Knowledge Maps – Structure Versus Meaning
Click to learn more about author John Singer. We are at an inflection point in the process of designing and building computerized systems. Let’s be honest – even with the explosion of new data technologies we are still building the same unit record processing systems from the 60’s, although with a bit more sophistication than an […]
Knowledge Maps – How to Ask a Good Data Question
Click to learn more about author John Singer. The good news about the Knowledge Map is you can start anywhere and build out from there. Because data is organized into facts, each fact being represented by a subject node, relationship (predicate), and an object node on the graph (see Knowledge Maps – A New Model For […]
Knowledge Maps – A New Model for Metadata
Click to learn more about author John Singer. IT Metadata Management – that quirky corner of IT recognized as a “critical success factor” yet the most under-funded aspect of any initiative. Historically, each new wave of IT technical innovation brings with it a call for better Metadata Management. The new innovation disrupts the current status quo […]
Knowledge Maps – Connecting the Dots
Click to learn more about author John Singer. The solution to the problem described in “Knowledge Maps: What Is the Problem We Are Trying To Solve” lies in the artful combination of several maturing technologies – Semantics, Graph Databases, and Web Services. Semantics: Combining best practices from several related fields (Library Science, Information Science, Linguistics), technologies […]
Knowledge Maps – What is the Problem We are Trying to Solve?
Click to learn more about author John Singer. Many people in their daily jobs lack the information they need to make well informed decisions, take decisive action, or solve problems. This lack of “the right information at the right time” results in unhappy customers, loss of sales, or the inability to recover quickly from broken processes […]