Data service best practices overview

This chapter begins with an appreciation for the facets that bring out the beauty of a diamond. In our case, the collected knowledge of the curated data release sets and the associated metadata form the raw material. This has great worth, but only if it is accessed through refined perspectives is the insight teased out of the material. Think of it as a lump of coal if it’s pressed, solidified into a lattice, and formed by the chemical properties of carbon molecules (the hexahedron). Your data, information, and eventually knowledge are formed under the pressure of the data factories processing it into its fit-for-purpose form, which is either explicitly built as a semantic graph or implicitly aligned with the business domain’s semantics, which could be modeled as a semantic graph. The result is the creation of the data’s knowledge graph (KG). This knowledge graph is analogous to the hexahedron lattice of a lump of coal but aligned...