Does everyone know how important metadata is to the success of their business model? For example, I recently jumped on a web site that defines its business model as a single point of contact to look up business information. Sounds like a great b...

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Enterprise metadata has received a lot of attention and press over the past few years, as many organizations have attempted to push data warehouse success to the enterprise level. In many ways, Enterprise Metadata is converging technologies into ...

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Think we have reached the end of outsourcing? Do not read the June 2005 Issue of Harvard Business Review article by Thomas H. Davenport. The coming commoditization of processes will enlighten you to a whole new dimension and possibilities. Also...

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Recently, I had the pleasure to attend a conference session that was titled Enterprise Architecture where the author presented Information Architecture as Data Architecture. Most of us know that the two disciplines are not the same and have many ...

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It’s time that we in the metadata world need to encourage an effort to move the development of a universal repository to the open source community. If they can build an operating system (Linux) and a web server (Apache) then building a open sourc...

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Part 2 of the review of the Metadata Support Model which takes a deep review of how the Metadata Services Group should organize around the basic questions of the customer.
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Not sure where the bolt of lightning came from but a few weeks I realized the most obvious of thoughts. “Talent competes on a global scale while Labor competes on a local scale”. Our world is changing and shrinking. True talent develops skills ...

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Got a call from a vendor not too along ago that wanted me to review their product. The sales person directed me to their web site where they quoted the benefits of advanced technology like OWL. I asked the gentleman what OWL stood for and his re...

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Vertical search aggregation allows sites to become known for particular topics and attain search engine visibility. To this end, it uses microformats as a glue to integrate blogging and folksonomy tagging.

Microformats are pre-agreed, huma...

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Recently, I noticed more and more blogs are editing the content posted. In other words, before an opinion is posted they want to review the content and ensure the validity and context (Also no vulgar posts). This will certainly keep put the Blog...

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I am stuck on the importance of metadata, information architecture, usability, repositories, etc to major organizations. While I have been writing on these topics for some time now, I haven’t really gotten it all together. In other words, I am i...

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Finally got the newest slides posted for the DAMA International Symposium and Wilshire Metadata Conference, the DAMA Atlanta Spring Session, and the Inforums Marketing Science Conference.
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Excellents Reads...

A Whole New Mind - Daniel Pink
For some reason, I liked the Free Agent Nation much better. This book is a follow up text on how we are progressing from the information age to the Conceptual age. The text in the ea...

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The current issue of Fast Company has a disturbing article by Marshall Goldsmith titled The One Skill that Separates. Basically, the article follows the old saying of how to differentiate between the good and the great. In a conversation, the go...

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This is the first time I have seen this. In order to post to David Allans blog you must type in a code which prevents Spam Blogging. I wonder how well it works and more importantly, should we do this?

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Ok, I dont say much on politics since I am not an expert in any form or fassion. However, I do believe our public education system isnt doing its job. Case in point...

In a comparison of a 1973 algebra textbook and a 1998 "contemporary ma...

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Why has McDonalds been so successful in the last 40 years? Why would someone like myself that doesnt really like McDonalds choose it over nice and seemingly classy local organization when traveling? The answer is obvious; we fear a bad experienc...

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My two rants for the day...

1. Beware of Perfect Data
Vendors routinely demonstrate their products over perfect data; data that was specifically designed to demonstrate the features and benefits of the application itself. Data, like...

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How do know when you should buy additional software or upgrade your current environment. How do you know when you Information Architecture is appropriate? How do you know if you products within the collaborative space needs expanding?

Si...

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Over the past year, we have been contributing to an effort known as Collaborative Computing which allows multiple users to update, post, and manage content in the online environment. The interesting thing is the major role metadata is playing in ...

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