Re: [ontolog-forum] Data Silos

[Doug McDavid <dougmcdavid@xxxxxxxxx>]

People who worry about issues of "silos" tend to congregate in the Data Management Association (DAMA)

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 6:54 AM, Jack Hodges <jhodgesatmb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Perhaps a better place to look for documentation, and reasoning about the problem, is in data interoperability. Data and information integration can possibly be addressed within an organization, but interoperability across organizations cannot. I participated in a project a couple years ago that identified massive interoperability issues both within and across organizations. Although that work was documented it would not be available to the general public, and I suspect that documentation for a lot of similar projects would be similarly unavailable.

Jack

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On Dec 23, 2014, at 6:36 AM, Matthew West <dr.matthew.west@xxxxxxxxx> 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

 

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Sent: 23 December 2014 08:19
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Subject: [ontolog-forum] Data Silos

 

All,

Data silos are often asserted as being a problem, and a justification for ontologies.

Do you know of any publications or studies that actually demonstrate that data silos cause problems?
(please cite any publications)

 

Happy holidays.

Best,
Robert Rovetto

P.S. If you know of opportunities to formally work on onto-related projects, feel free to contact me. thank you.

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