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2022

Dec 22 Key Technical Foundations for FAIRifying Data
Oct 21 Implementing the FAIR Principles Through FAIR-Enabling Artifacts and Services
Oct 17 Architecture Patterns for FAIR-Enabling Services
Oct 17 From Platforms to Microservices for FAIR Data and Analysis
Oct 3 FAIR-Enabling Services Redux
Sep 12 Translating Identifiers
Sep 12 Indexing Translators and Traces
Sep 7 Indexing Validators
Sep 6 Indexing Identifiers
Sep 4 Validating Traces — Syntactically, Semantically, and Situationally
Sep 2 A Disconnect Between FAIR Infrastructure Devs and Product Devs
Sep 1 Validating Translation
Aug 31 Semantic Stars Upon Thars
Aug 30 Who Validates the Validators?
Aug 29 Identifying Validation
Aug 29 Interview with Martynas Jusevičius
Aug 27 Tracing Identifiers
Aug 26 Translating Identifiers
Aug 24 Indexing Identifier Services
Aug 23 Validating an Identifier Service
Aug 22 Identifying Identifying
Aug 19 A Five-Week Experiment to Elaborate on FAIR-Enabling Services
Aug 18 FAIR-Enabling Services
Aug 15 FAIR-Enabling Resources - Identifier Services
Aug 11 Schema Translation Infrastructure
Aug 8 A Perlisism for Identifiers: Delay Binding
Aug 3 When Do Developers Not Have to Talk to Stakeholders?
Aug 2 Principles for Robustly Interoperable Digital Objects
Aug 1 Shotgun Semantics
Jul 29 Interview with Shreyas Cholia
Jul 27 Method and Structure
Jul 21 Interview with Patrick Huck, on implementing FAIR for computed materials data
Jul 20 "My Data Model Is JSON"
Jul 19 A FAIR Digital Object - Inching up the Hourglass
Jul 18 Validation: Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics
Jul 15 High-Precision Content Classification Using Hierarchy
Jul 14 Taxonomy Pruning for Query Classification
Jul 8 An Objective Function for Code Refactoring
Jul 6 Complexity Is Carbon
Jul 5 These Are All Just Persistent URLs, No?
Jul 1 The ARK System of Persistent Identifiers (PIDs)
Jun 30 The Handle System of Persistent Identifiers
Jun 29 What globally unique, persistent, resolvable identifiers do you use for datasets?
Jun 28 Findability → Known-Item Search, Discoverability → Exploratory Search?
Jun 27 Is an Ontology 'better' than a Relational Data Model?
Jun 24 Leave Beacons in Code
Jun 23 CFF for Machine-Actionable Software Citations
Jun 15 PageRank of Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV)
Jun 9 Lean Web - Principles of Lean Thinking applied to Web Development
Jun 9 Hallucinating Datasets Across Epochal Time
Jun 3 ¬ consistent ⇒ ¬ valid ⇒ ¬ accurate
Jun 1 W3C data recommendations -- there are many!
May 30 Data Stacks for FAIR
May 29 A Sign Helps You Use It as Though It Were an X
May 29 Sending Signal-Signs
May 29 FAIR Principle R1.1: Meta(data) are released with a clear and accessible data usage license
May 24 The Persistence of Identity
May 13 Why Is There Not Just One Metadata Format for All Kinds of Research Data?
May 9 A Phase Space of Reproducibility
May 6 Let Traits Accrete
May 5 Keying Into Fashion and Style for Knowledge Arrangement
May 4 Identity and Concurrency
Apr 29 "We Need to Dockerize and Distribute Robert"
Apr 28 Ensure That Provenance Bottoms Out
Apr 27 "Straightening Out" Circular Causality
Apr 25 Data Ventriloquy
Apr 24 Crossing the Inter-Lab Chasm
Apr 23 Place Oriented Publishing Versus Value Oriented
Apr 22 Slot Long Range Plans Into Ecosystems
Apr 20 Schemes for Indirect Control
Apr 19 Directness Is Dangerous
Apr 18 The Conservative Self
Apr 18 Core Versus Crust
Apr 15 One Self or Many
Apr 13 What Functions Do Ideas About Selves Serve?
Apr 12 Appearing Opposed, Related Goals
Apr 11 Destructive Acts Serving Constructive Goals
Apr 10 Hierarchies, Heterarchies, and Agent Memory
Apr 8 Agents and Hierarchies
Apr 7 The Principle of Noncompromise
Apr 6 Migrating Conflicts Between Agents to Higher Levels
Apr 5 Are People Machines?
Apr 5 GUIs and APIs Are Both Human Interfaces
Apr 4 Easy Things Are Hard
Apr 3 Holes and Parts
Apr 1 Parts and Wholes
Mar 31 Novelists and Reductionists
Mar 30 Components and Connections
Mar 29 Wholes and Parts, in FAIR and Mind
Mar 28 Agents and Agencies
Mar 27 Common Sense
Mar 25 The World of Blocks
Mar 24 The Society of Method
Mar 23 The Research Process and the Bits
Mar 22 The Agents of a FAIR Research Platform
Mar 22 DIKW Bases and Products
Mar 21 Riffs on the Society of Mind - Prologue
Jan 26 Why Publishing Failures is Important for Science
Jan 25 What's Inside the Arrows?
Jan 24 Column-Name Contracts
Jan 21 Reasoning Lets You See What Isn't There
Jan 17 Flow and Meaning
Jan 14 A Flexible Schema is Like a Rubber Ruler
Jan 13 Generalizing the Postdoc Position
Jan 12 Metadata as Relations Between Identifiers
Jan 11 A Journal of FAIR Overlays
Jan 10 Mean-ing
Jan 10 Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom (DIKW)

2021

Sep 20 Request Your Cake and Eat It Too
Sep 10 Software User Facilities
Sep 3 A Delimiters-in-Front Coding Style
Sep 3 Automatic RSS Feed for Each Tag in a Hugo Blog
Aug 30 Open, Reproducible, Sustainable
Aug 11 Governance of Conceptual Knowledge versus Policy/Reference Knowledge
Jul 28 The Kent Uncertainty Principle - On Data and Reality
Jul 23 L⁻¹T⁻¹ETL
Jul 12 On the Wisdom of Opaque Identifiers
Jul 5 Object Persistence: a Matter of Service
Jun 24 Data Structures as Snapshots of Process
Jun 16 Cool LUIs Dont Change
Jun 4 Identifiers Versus Labels
May 21 Data Citation: Restoring ↔ Querying
May 17 On the Hourglass Model, for FAIR
May 12 Data Citation via a Query and a Basis
May 10 Metamorphic Tests for Domain-Specific Properties
May 7 Collaborative Custodianship of Data Objects
May 5 Exploratory Behavior With Generate-and-Test
Apr 30 Resource Description (Ontology/Schema) Versus Resource Layout (API)
Apr 28 Metadata Harvesting From Delimited-Path Key-Value Systems
Apr 27 Statecharts as a Logic of Effects
Apr 23 Data Dictionaries for Humans and Machines
Apr 22 When ETL Is a Symptom
Apr 19 "Lets Not Reinvent the Wheel"
Apr 16 Data Reduction for Science
Apr 14 CSV on the Web: Sidecars for Spreadsheets
Apr 12 How Is Data Unification Different Than Data Fusion?
Apr 9 Tenets of (Scalable) Data Unification
Apr 7 Value Lattices for Data Collaboration
Apr 5 Reusable Data Attributes
Apr 2 FAIR Components of Scientific Models
Mar 31 The QUDT System for Dimensional Analysis and Unit Conversions
Mar 30 Go-to-Declaration for Data
Mar 26 A Continuant-Event Model for Recording Scientific Data
Mar 24 Data Collaboration Is Hard Like Distributed Computing Is Hard
Mar 23 A CSV File That Knows Its Schema and Context
Mar 19 A JSON File That Knows Its Schema and Context
Mar 17 A Universal Relation for Data -- One Table and One Table Only
Mar 15 Data Sharing Is Hard Like Shared Variables Are Hard
Mar 12 Continuous Integration for Scientific Data
Mar 10 Version Control for Data
Mar 8 Conceptual Provenance
Mar 5 Shipping Context With Data -- Convention, Protocol, and Infrastructure
Mar 3 Are You Just Creating Another Data Silo?
Mar 1 Relating versus Replacing
Feb 26 Opening the World to Infer; Closing It to Validate
Feb 24 Scientific Data Is Fundamentally Distributed
Feb 22 The Costs of FAIR
Feb 19 [F,A,I,R] -> [possible, plausible, probable, perishable]
Feb 17 Data Formats Versus Data Models
Feb 15 What Is Interoperability?
Feb 9 K-Lines via RDF and PROV
Feb 7 This is the Data I Want -- Can I Go Home Now?
Feb 5 Data Sharing versus Data Collaboration

2020

Nov 24 Worse Is Better, and the Rule of Least Power
Nov 22 The Materials Paradigm and Epochal Time
Nov 12 Shaping Up With Sequence Diagrams
Oct 28 Relating the ISO 11179 Metadata Registry (MDR) Standard to Semantic Web Standards
Oct 19 Deconstructing the Database, Propagation Networks, and Tuple Spaces
Oct 19 Event Sourcing With Eliot
Oct 11 ETL Last
Sep 29 Headless Materials Research Management Systems
Sep 17 Data Lifecycles
Sep 11 FAIR and Stages of Reusability
Aug 20 A FAIR Slice
Aug 7 The Perils of Eager Type Inference
Jul 31 Sargable Science
Jul 29 An Onion of Open
Jul 27 Feedback Needs an Output
Jul 15 Passover and the Four Users
Jun 25 Data-Driven Programming
Jun 24 The Dictionary Game
Jun 10 Query-Driven Development
Jun 2 Towards a Materials Ontology With Protégé
Jun 2 Relational Homology
May 29 The "20 Queries" Heuristic
May 22 Reliable Data and Knowledge Graphs
May 19 Process Capability and Data Platforms
May 18 Data Discovery and Join-Path Discovery
May 15 Frictionless Linked Data
May 14 Linting for Lawmakers
May 13 Linked Data is an Ecosystem of Portal Abstractions
May 8 Reuse of Conceptual Models
May 7 Data-Driven Decoding
May 5 Just the Tip of Your Data Iceberg
Apr 24 An ATM for Your Data
Apr 24 The WYSIWYG Publication
Apr 23 Interpreting Data→Information→Knowledge
Apr 22 The Data Ops Manifesto
Apr 21 Success, Not Perfection
Apr 20 Conceptual Agreement for Performance Goals