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Connecting Glossary Terms with Data Elements is a Key Data Governance Task
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, and...
read moreA Recap of December’s DG Winter Conference
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 be in December, not only for the weather but also for the...
read moreHow does SHACL Support Data Governance?
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...
read moreA Recap from SEMANTiCS 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 demand for...
read moreQ&A FROM RECENT WEBINARS, “An Overview of SHACL (Shapes Constraint Language)”
* 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 SHACL features and capabilities and...
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The “Governance of Data Governance”
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 how...
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