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.

Laws are rules that a particular community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members.

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.

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: