JT on EDM

Neil and I are both speaking at the DAMA International Symposium & WILSHIRE Meta-Data Conference March 16-20, 2008 in San Diego. Our sessions are both on Tuesday March 18th:

James - Business Rules, Decision Management and Smarter Systems
Neil - Tainted Truth: Understanding Industry Surveys

There’s a discount price until Feb 8th. We would love to see you [...]

Mike replied to my post about his question on enterprise metadata. He, like me, prefers David Marco’s definition of metadata as “all physical data and knowledge from inside and outside an organization, including information about the physical data, technical and business processes, rules and constraints of the data, and structures of the data used by [...]

Mike Kavis, a blogger on ITToolbox and Chief Architect, sent me an interesting question about enterprise metadata
He says “My company has huge amounts of historical data. We load 500M new rows a day and keep data for 116 weeks. I am trying to move this company away from being report writers to being [...]

I got a chance to attend some of Enterprise Search Summit West yesterday (thanks to my friends at Semantra). I attended a couple of sessions and browsed the exhibit hall.
The first session was entitled “What is Semantic Search“. Seth Earley gave a rapid 30 minute overview of semantic search. He touched on explicit and implicit [...]