This is a guest post by Ben Werdmuller who is the CTO of Curverider and one of the leads behind the Elgg open source social application engine. The Open Data Definition is a new format for the import ...

Volume, velocity and variety characteristics of information assets are not three parts of Gartner’s definition of big data, it is part one, and oftentimes, misunderstood. Most people only retain about ...

(1) In a source language program, the definitions of data structures (variables, arrays, fields, records, etc.). (2) A description of the record layout in a file system or DBMS. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR ...

Yesterday I got an email from UC Berkeley’s Master of Information and Data Science program, asking me to respond to a survey of data science thought leaders, asking the question “What is big data”? I ...

In writing a definition for an entity, an attribute, or any other element within a database design, the desired end is a descriptive text that is clear, factual and concise. Semantics are an ambiguous ...

The analysis, classification and maintenance of an organization's data and data relationships. Data administration includes the development of data models and data dictionaries, which, combined with ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A data warehouse is defined as a central repository that allows ...

I want to convert the database definition of an existing SQL database into an XML schema, so I can use the schema with some model-driven development tools to create a new distributed application that ...