Re: [ontolog-forum] Data, Silos, Interoperability, and Agility

[Paul Tyson <phtyson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2013-09-18 at 15:11 -0400, David Eddy wrote:
> Kingsley -
> 
> On Sep 18, 2013, at 1:30 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> 
> > There are different kinds of silos. When it comes to data, I am yet
> > to find any justification for a silo.
> 
> There's a long list of justifications...
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> - senior management can assign responsibility (single neck to wring)
> 
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> - establishes boundaries
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> - limits risk
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> - hedge technical bets
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> - hedge project management bets
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> 
> If organizations had to sit down before hand & agree across
> organizational boundaries on what the data means across all the
> players/departments, nothing would ever get done.
> 
> 
Agreed, but: 1) not necessary (see below); and 2) in 2013 I can't
imagine anyone having a greenfield in which such an endeavour would even
be possible.
> 
> 
> Or are you going to tell me that the magic of SW means one does not
> have to define what data means?    (01)

No, but it certainly doesn't require it. I only started to make progress
with the SW stack when I set aside the problems of meaning and ontology,
and just started looking at what people do with data--how they react to
different patterns in the data. I stopped worrying about meaning, and
instead tried to highlight useful and deleterious patterns of data
(based on user feedback). Meaning is what the users make of the data,
not what I make of it.    (02)

Regards,
--Paul    (03)

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