Great blog as always, David, reading my mind and bringing a lot of good food for thought.
It'd be great to hear your expanded thoughts on
"a centrally-accessible location, like a catalog or semantic layer"
Do you see catalogs and semantic layers as two separate things? Or two services of the same thing? Do you need both? Are they competing or collaborating? Could semantic layers just be generated out of a catalog? Is semantic layer just an "edge" feature of a "core" catalog? Is a semantic layer a "bespoke" view of a "universal" catalog? Can you have a semantic layer without a catalog, and if so, is it managed differently? Is "semantic steward" an emerging data role? I'm working through some ideas in this space, I think it's definitely an area of interest.
Great blog as always, David, reading my mind and bringing a lot of good food for thought.
It'd be great to hear your expanded thoughts on
"a centrally-accessible location, like a catalog or semantic layer"
Do you see catalogs and semantic layers as two separate things? Or two services of the same thing? Do you need both? Are they competing or collaborating? Could semantic layers just be generated out of a catalog? Is semantic layer just an "edge" feature of a "core" catalog? Is a semantic layer a "bespoke" view of a "universal" catalog? Can you have a semantic layer without a catalog, and if so, is it managed differently? Is "semantic steward" an emerging data role? I'm working through some ideas in this space, I think it's definitely an area of interest.