At its heart, data modeling is about understanding how data flows through a system. Just as a map can help us understand a city’s layout, data modeling can help us understand the complexities of a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Data is a thorny subject. For a start, we’re not sure how ...

RDF is a graph data model that has been around since 1997. It's a W3C standard, and it's used to power schema.org and Open Graph, among other things. Plus, there's a bunch of RDF-based graph databases ...

Modern biology depends on the collection, management and analysis of comprehensive datasets. Unlike the concerted efforts that drove the completion of the first genome projects, most current datasets ...

The healthcare system is faced with a tsunami of incoming data. In fact, the average hospital produces roughly 50 petabytes of data every year. That’s more than twice the amount of data housed in the ...

A leading supplier of data integration software for businesses, finding that its developers were spending too much time grappling with data management inside each of its products, adapted its ...

Does one health information exchange data architecture model provide better security than others? That all depends on who you ask. See Also: Using the Netskope HIPAA Mapping Guide Supporters of the ...

A tutorial on the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) networking reference model plus tips on how to memorize the seven layers. The Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) model is a conceptual framework that ...