by Irene Polikoff | Dec 8, 2019 | Newsletter
A Note from TopQuadrant’s CEO, Irene Polikoff As the end of 2019 quickly approaches, it’s a good time to reflect on the year gone by and what the next year holds in the world of Semantic-based Data Governance. Last year at this time we predicted that the use of...
by Irene Polikoff | Jun 15, 2018 | Data Governance, Blog, Metadata Management
There is a growing realization that data is one of the most valuable enterprise assets. A year ago, Economist published an article pointing out that “data, not oil, is today’s most valuable resource”. A couple of months ago, Forbes joined the...
by Irene Polikoff | May 1, 2018 | Ontology Modeling, Blog
Following my two recent talks at the Enterprise Data World, 2018: SHACL (Shapes Constraint Language) – An Introduction, [Download Slides >>] FIBO in SHACL: The Next Step in Data Validation and Interoperability, [Download Slides >] I have been getting many...
by Irene Polikoff | Oct 25, 2017 | Ontology Modeling, Blog
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...
by Irene Polikoff | Jul 3, 2017 | Blog
For several years TopQuadrant has been a sponsor at the DGIQ Conference in San Diego. This year the conference was bigger than ever! From our own experience, we know that this reflects the continuing fast growth in the use of data governance across many organizations....
