Another View | The Tao of architecture
Commentary: Optimizing key design characteristics is the hardest and most important part of building an enterprise architecture.
Reality Check | UCore's giant leap
A key group of chief information officers is pushing the boundaries of consensus building and galvanizing the federal information technology community.
Reality Check | Metadata's new name is TED
Commentary: The classic definition of metadata ' data about data ' blurs the distinction between data and metadata. A better name for metadata might be "Targeted Extrinsic Description."
Michael Daconta | My data's not ok, yours is not ok
Reality Check'commentary: It's OK to admit your dirty little secret: You have bad data. Guess what? So does everyone.
Michael Daconta | Don't fear authoritative data
Another View'commentary: Rising above the politics of fear and fiefdoms is vital to achieving the promise of authoritative data sources.
Michael Daconta | The ROI of good governance
Reality Check'commentary: In a post-Enron, post-Katrina climate, the new meaning of ROI could be risk of incarceration.
Michael Daconta | Metadata: The stuff of web 2.0
Reality Check'commentary: The lesson to be learned from the rise of Web 2.0 metadata is that the value of data is not inherent in the data itself.
Mike Daconta | How the Social Web saved the Semantic Web
Another View'commentary: The social Web has saved the Semantic Web by harnessing people around highly interactive sites to produce shared data.
Michael Daconta | Five steps to better data management
Commentary: If money is an organization's lifeblood and people its muscles, data is the nervous system. What resolutions would discipline and strengthen an organization's nervous system? Let me suggest five.
Mike Daconta | Safe consumer products require trusted information
Reality Check--commentary: As the Holiday Season is upon us, our minds turn to good cheer, presents ... and safety.
Michael Daconta | The high cost of ambiguity
Commentary: Ambiguity is an unacceptable lack of precision that can cause immediate, blatant error. Or it can cause subtle, delayed error.
Michael Daconta | Check the date on your interoperability policy
Commentary: Date formats are a good indicator of the maturity ' or immaturity ' of your information management practices.
Mike Daconta | Design stovepipes out of the picture
Commentary: To eliminate IT stovepipes, start by recognizing that most systems are that way by design.
Mike Daconta | What the iPhone can teach government
Commentary: Government organizations can learn a lot from the iPhone.
Mike Daconta | The battle over Rich Internet Apps
In the battle over Rich Internet Applications, users will emerge the winners.
Michael Daconta | SOA: Finding a killer app
Federated query can be the killer app for service-oriented architectures.
Michael Daconta | Standards: See the forest and the trees
Successful data standardization relies on strong technical leadership combining business acumen with deep technical expertise. If you don't have it, find someone who does.
Mike Daconta | Before you leap to Web 2.0, try Web 1.0
You may feel the urge to upgrade to Web 2.0 today. But before you make that leap, there is a more important question: Have you really even implemented Web 1.0?
Mike DaConta | The new face of information sharing
Have you ever wondered why they name laws after children, such as 'Jessica's Law'? The reason is that complex issues need a simple, recognizable 'face' to make them real for a wide audience. This is exactly the kind of catalyst that information sharing needs.
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