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Re: [ontolog-forum] Data Silos

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From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 09:49:40 -0500
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On 12/23/14 9:36 AM, Matthew West wrote:

Dear Robert,

Since this is what I spent most of the last 20 years of my time working at Shell on, I’ve probably written some stuff about it here:

http://www.matthew-west.org.uk/publications

 

At least one paper I wrote a long time ago is:

http://www.matthew-west.org.uk/publications/STEP-ProductivityForIndustry.pdf

 

In principle, all data is in silos, the question is whether all the data you need for some purpose is in one silo, and whether that silo is coherent and consistent. The problem comes when the data you need is in multiple data silos and you have to bring it together, i.e. integrate it, so that it is useful. It requires a miracle for data across different silos to be coherent and consistent, and it is enormously expensive to integrate the data into one data silo. So much so that there is not too much written about it by companies because the numbers are so embarrassing.

If you are going to bring data together you need a common view of the world that you can use to integrate the data. A common ontology is one way you can develop this.

I suggest you look for papers on data integration, and not just data silos.

Merry Christmas

 

Regards

 

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Robert,

Here are some Data Silo related posts that I've shared in recent times:

[1] http://kidehen.blogspot.com/2014/09/linked-open-data-enterprise.html
[2] http://kidehen.blogspot.com/2014/08/linked-local-data-lld-and-linked-open.html
[3] http://kidehen.blogspot.com/2014/04/oracle-data-de-silo-fication-using-rdf.html
[4] http://kidehen.blogspot.com/2014/12/deceptively-simple-conceptual-data.html .

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