Tuesday: April 5, 2005 2:56 AM
Over the past few years, I’ve had the opportunity to discuss enterprise metadata to a wide variety of audiences and much of this conversation is captured in this Best Practices implementation framework. The model has evolved over the past few year...
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Friday: April 8, 2005 11:02 PM
Sitting in the airport in Ft. Lauderdale where they have open access to a wireless network and thinking about nice this open access information is. Wonder when Atlanta is going install free wireless access? Perhaps if we hadnt spent so much on t...
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Friday: April 8, 2005 11:05 PM
Reflecting on the IEEE Conference hosted by Nova Southeastern University, I wonder where the metadata presentations were located. Several of the presentations / papers discussed the problems that metadata address including data integration, knowl...
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Wednesday: April 13, 2005 12:59 PM
Do my eyes deceive me? In the April 2005 issue of DMReview is an interview with Jean Schauer. The title seems out of place for a data magazine: Clarity, Simplicity, and Usability. Finally, someone high up in an organization is willing to discus...
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Wednesday: April 13, 2005 1:12 PM
The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism - Shoshana Zuboff, James Maxmin
Most of the time I pen a small paragraph describing the book but leave it up to you to discover the knowledg...
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Tuesday: April 19, 2005 11:13 PM
What is the difference between a repository and registry? Is it as simple as saying a registry is record entry while a repository will contain other artifacts? Take a look at one possible solution to the Web Service Registry and the Repository.<...
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Wednesday: April 27, 2005 5:17 PM
I have been quite for while since school started and soon wrapping up. Just too many things going on to keep up with it all. One question that continues to reappear over and over again is the element of Return on Investment for Metadata initiati...
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Friday: April 29, 2005 2:37 PM
It’s over; place a nail in the coffin of the traditional delivery of value within the Information Technology world. Success in IT is not about delivering products and service with the perfection of a symphony. We don’t have the time, money, or o...
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