Connecting Glossary Terms with Data Elements is a Key Data Governance Task

Posted by Robert Coyne on March 7, 2018

Many large businesses – from pharmaceutical to aerospace to consumer goods – as well as government agencies rely on data governance to bring together all their disparate data sources – to make data across an organization available, meaningful, usable, re-usable, … Read More »

A Recap of December’s DG Winter Conference

Posted by Steve Wartofsky on January 4, 2018

Happy 2018! December was a busy month – as I’m sure many of you, like me, experienced. We started the month with a trip to the Data Governance Winter Conference in Delray Beach, Florida. It is a great place to … Read More »

How does SHACL Support Data Governance?

Posted by Irene Polikoff on October 25, 2017

SHACL (SHAPES Constraint Language) is a powerful, recently released W3C standard for data modeling, ontology design, data validation, inferencing and data transformation. In this post, we explore some important ways in which SHACL can be used to support capabilities needed … Read More »

A Recap from SEMANTiCS 2017

Posted by Robert Coyne on October 6, 2017

TopQuadrant recently wrapped up our attendance, sponsorship and exhibition at SEMANTiCS 2017 in Amsterdam. This year’s conference had a strong turnout with 370 attendees to be exact. This represented a growth of 33% over last year which reflects the growing … Read More »

Q&A FROM RECENT WEBINARS, “An Overview of SHACL (Shapes Constraint Language)”

Posted by Kristi Lee-John on September 13, 2017

* This post has been updated to reflect new questions received in the presentation of the webinar An Overview of SHACL (Shapes Constraint Language), on October 17, 2017. The webinar was our second in a series of webinars focused on … Read More »

The “Governance of Data Governance”

Posted by ralph hodgson on August 25, 2017

Governance of data is not only about managing metadata of enterprise data assets, it's also about setting up a “Governance Framework” that defines business areas, data subject areas, organizations, roles and responsibilities. In this post we provide an overview of … Read More »

Beyond Good Data –Business Decisions Require Meaningful Data

Posted by Robert Coyne on August 21, 2017

We all strive to make good business decisions, but with the continuous improvements in technology and data storage it can often be difficult to sift through all of the available data. Much of it may be good data—in other words, … Read More »