Articles - Datamillennium

The AI Subject Matter Expert – A New Role

By Malcolm Chisholm For years in Data Governance, we have been working diligently to implement and maintain mature Data Catalogs. There have been many reasons for doing so including, compliance, data democratization and keeping an accurate data asset inventory. In the age of Generative AI, we can now see bigger picture solutions that were not…

The Cambrian Explosion of Data Catalogs

By Malcolm Chisholm The fossil record can be very puzzling. One of the greatest mysteries is the appearance of large groups of diverse organisms during relatively short time periods. The most famous of these is the “Cambrian Explosion”, some 540 million years ago, during which nearly all of the animal body plans we are familiar…

JUNK METADATA AND DATA CATALOGS

By Malcolm Chisholm Here are a few fun facts about each of us: So about 98% of our DNA seems to have no functional role in our bodies. Scientists like to call it “Non- coding DNA”, but the more popular name is “Junk DNA”. Having 98% useless DNA would seem like the mother of all…

IT’S TIME TO STOP TREATING END USER COMPUTING AS ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR

By Malcolm Chisholm End User Computing (EUC) is, in my experience, usually regarded as a sordid and unsavory activity that respectable members of the enterprise should not indulge in, and which in an ideal state would be completely abolished. It is tolerated, but not approved of, because the enterprise needs it to continue to function.…

PROPHECY: THE NO-CODE REVOLUTION IS COMING FOR DATA GOVERNANCE

By Malcolm Chisholm I occasionally like to indulge in predictions, such as “The Dawn of Big Data – Are We on The Cusp of a New Paradigm?” from October of 2009. Well, Big Data has come and gone, and it had a good run for a while before mutating into a variety of offspring. Now…

Data Governance’s New Frontier – ESG – Environment, Social, and Governance

By Malcolm Chisholm It seems that the scope of Data Governance is ever-expanding and the complexity that the industry has to deal with increases every year. Recently, Data Privacy became vastly more important with the adoption of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA), and many similar regulations in…