Sunday, August 19, 2007
Good Interview on XML and Data Management with Owen Ambur
An interview with Owen Ambur,a former senior architect in the Interior Department and leader of the XML community practice, entitled, The Data Landscape, is available on GCN. I worked with Owen on the data reference model and other XML related activities. Owen was a passionate XML advocate and we held many superb discussions on how to fix data management. We both argued strongly for a more concrete approach to the DRM with concrete XML schemas for the reporting of data assets. Good to hear that Owen is doing well and staying involved. It was a pleasure to work with him.
Labels: Owen Ambur XML data management
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Can Data Management help to Stop Fraud?
This article reports how a company fraudelently billed the pentagon over $900,000 for shipping. Sounds to me like poor data validation. If the billing system uses well-defined metadata fields, this type of anomaly should be easily caught. Seems like the pentagon should get some best practice from the fraud detection division of the credit card companies!
