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How 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...

A 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...

Q&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...

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...

Beyond Good Data –Business Decisions Require Meaningful Data

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, correct data that is timely, useful and...

GDPR was a hot topic at DGIQ 2017

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....