"We can’t try to bring them all [ontologies] together. We can’t make them all one. What we need to do is really focus on delivering the outcomes and delivering the use cases, and then have data engineers worry about how to normalize that data. Because at the end of the day, the ontology doesn't deliver any outcome. It only enables, right? It's not an outcome.”
–Brian Turner

 My Highlights

• New year, new favorite question (5:17)
• Digging into Buildings IOT’s offerings: the ontology alignment project (OAP), JetStream, onPoint (8:41)
• What the domain-specific API is missing (19:21)
• How to ensure the independent data layer accommodates the client’s use cases (21:24)
• The need and (lack of?) demand for supervisory control, and the problems with reinventing the wheel for fairly consistent use cases (24:20)
• Brian’s perspective on the state of the industry as it relates to data modeling: the Ontology Wars (32:59)
• The concept of the ‘decoder ring,’ and the challenges of industry-wide collaboration (35:59)
• Deep dive into what an master systems integrator (MSI) is/does, and the fundamental problem with the industry in Brian’s view: conflicts of interest (45:01)
• Something to be excited about in 2021 (1:01:16)

 

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