Made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Frictionless Linked Data
I was reminded of the importance of approachable, low-barrier-to-entry tools for data management by Monica Granados and Lily Zhao in their presentation of the Frictionless Data toolkit.
Linting for Lawmakers
Laws are rules that a particular community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members.
Linked Data is an Ecosystem of Portal Abstractions
In an episode of the CoRecursive podcast1, Sam Ritchie uses the phrase “portal abstraction” to describe how the use of a particular term can open a portal – a gateway – to a world of relevant prior art.
Reuse of Conceptual Models
As part of her introduction to ontology enginering,1 Prof. Maria Keet has a slide depicting ontology as a layer apart from conceptual data models: