There is an old dream of having all information available in one place, just as there is an equally old desire to squirrel away the information ‘we’ need in a place controlled by just ‘us’. Neither of these tendencies are likely to ever completely obscure the other, but there are technologies that attempt to bridge […]

Last month, I attended the Festival of HE Data at the University of Huddersfield.  This one-day event had a number of speakers in the morning and an afternoon session in which various Universities (including Edinburgh) and other services demonstrated some of their projects and services. “Data” is rather a broad topic and the emphasis of […]

Sometimes, what can seem just a useful innovation in IT infrastructure can have a significant effect higher up. Containerisation is one of those things, and one of its experts outlined the how and why in a Software Development Community of Practice industry talk. One of the advantages of being in Edinburgh is that we have […]

When systems and processes are changing – and when the infrastructure they rely on doesn’t stay still either – it can become useful to see where the dependencies are. Roadmapping is a family of techniques to tackle that issue, and I went to a roadmapping workshop to delve deeper into them.   The workshop was […]

Funny how very different organisations can have very similar challenges. One of the things I wanted to find out from going to the IRM UK Enterprise Data Conference Europe is how other organisations went about agreeing data standards for their own organisation. I got there in one: the very first talk was about exactly that […]