Dave McComb on the Data-Centric Revolution

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TDAN has published an excellent series of articles on data and architecture in large systems written by Dave McComb.

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Dave McComb on the Data-Centric Revolution

By: Dave McComb

TDAN: 10/12/2023

Mike is the inventor and architect of Pipi and the founder of Ajabbi.

Dave McComb is President and co-founder of Semantic Arts, Inc., a Fort Collins, Colorado-based consulting firm. Since its founding in 2000, Semantic Arts has remained 100% focused on helping clients adopt Data-Centric principles and implement Enterprise Knowledge Graphs. Semantic Arts has 30 employees in three countries and is currently helping ten highly visible Fortune 500 companies adopt Data-Centricity. In 2022, Semantic Arts was named a Colorado Company to Watch.

Articles published on TDAN

• The Enterprise Ontology (2006)
• The Data-Centric Revolution (September 1 2015)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: Seven Warning Signs of Appliosclerosis (December 1, 2015)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: The Evolution of the Data-Centric Revolution Part One (March 1, 2016)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: The Evolution of the Data-Centric Revolution Part Two (June 1, 2016)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: Data-Centric vs. Data-Driven (September1, 2016)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: Do Data Lakes Make My Enterprise Look Data-Centric? (December 1, 2016)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: Integration Debt (March 1, 2017)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: Gaining Traction (June 7, 2017)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: The Core Model at the Heart of Your Architecture (September 6, 2017)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: Data-Centric’s Role in the Reduction of Complexity (December 6 , 2017)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: Data-Centric vs. Application-Centric (March 7, 2018)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: Data-Centric and Model-Driven (June 20. 2018)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: Governance in a Data-Centric Environment (September 5, 2018)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: Implementing a Data-Centric Architecture (December 5, 2018)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: The 1st Annual Data-Centric Architecture Forum (March 6, 2019)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: Lawyers, Guns and Money (June 5, 2019)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: Toss Out Metadata That Does Not Bring Joy (September 4 2019)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: Semantics and the DAMA Wheel (December 4, 2019)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: Report From the Front Lines (March 18, 2020)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: The Sky is Falling (Let’s Make Lemonade) (June 17, 2020)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: Data-Centric vs. Centralization (September 2, 2020)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: The Role of SemOps (Part 1) (December 2020)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: The Role of SemOps (Part 2) (March 3, 2021)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: Fighting Class Proliferation (June 2, 2021)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: Avoiding the Hype Cycle (September 1, 2021
• The Data-Centric Revolution: Data-Centric Accounting (December 1, 2021)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: Incremental Stealth Legacy Modernization (March 2, 2022)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: Headless BI and the Metrics Layer
•  (June 15, 2022)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: OWL as a Discipline (September 7, 2022)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: Detour / Shortcut to FAIR
•  (December 7, 2022)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: Zero Copy Integration (March 1, 2023)
• Data Centric Revolution: Is Knowledge Ontology the Missing Link? (June 7, 2023)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: “RDF is Too Hard” (September 6, 2023)
• The Data-Centric Revolution: Best Practices and Schools of Ontology Design (December 20, 2023)

Dave is the author of 

• Semantics in Business Systems
• Software Wasteland
• The Data-Centric Revolution