Thursday, 22 January 2026

Helpful Links: CDMC, ADAC, DPROD, Solid, CALM, CCC, OLMo, ODI, TNE, ETM

I am involved in a wide range of industry activity.  Here are the useful links if you want to find out more:

 🌐 CDMC - Cloud Data Management Capabilities, an EDMCouncil Data Management best practices framework with automations for cloud. 
CDMC guide: https://edmcouncil.org/frameworks/cdmc/
CDMC Spec: https://github.com/finos/compliant-financial-infrastructure/files/7650814/CDMC_Framework_V1.1.1.pdf

🌐 ADAC - AI, Data & Analytics Controls, An EDMCouncil group developing an extension of CDMC to cover AI use case governance.
Overview doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q-QKXrjNy7aSRKOjS2-fMtzaOw5_TWRO9Lg4tDSdJtU 
OLMo model from AI2 (ADAC has traced the lineage of the training data): https://allenai.org/olmo

🌐 DPROD - An OMG & EKGF project to extend W3C DCAT to enable Data Product sharing across an enterprise and its data partners.
DPROD spec: https://ekgf.github.io/data-product-spec/dprod


🌐 Solid - Tim Berners Lee’s W3C and Open Data Institute project to enable individuals to own and manage their personal data, stored in secure data wallets.
Solid homepage: https://solidproject.org/
🌐 Architecture as Code - FinOS project to establish machine readable Common Architecture Language Model (CALM) to enable automation.
CALM v1.0 announcement: https://lists.finos.org/g/toc/topic/finos_community_calm_v1_0/114686088
CALM repo: https://github.com/finos-labs/architecture-as-code


🌐 CCC - FinOS project for establishing Common Cloud Controls. We are working to reuse the CDMC controls in this wider framework.
Introductory white paper: https://github.com/finos/common-cloud-controls/blob/main/docs/Citi-Contributed-White-Paper/Financial-Services-Common-Cloud-Controls-Standard-v1.0-(for%20publication).pdf


🌐 Cloud - I have spoken at several conferences on the top lessons learned about at-scale cloud migration: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/lseg-cloud-lessons/

🌐 Enterprise Tech Meetup - I co-host the London Enterprise Tech Monthly meet-up on a regular basis with Ian Ellis

🌐 Emerging Tech Portfolio companies & advisory relationships:
I am an advisor and angel investor for a number of high-potential data companies.
Honeydew - semantic layer for AI & BI: https://honeydew.ai/
Lunar - The Control Layer for Enterprise Agents (inc MCP & API gateway): https://www.lunar.dev/
MagicOrange - advanced ITFM & FinOps platform: https://www.magicorange.com/
Deontic Data - AI for market data licences: https://www.deonticdata.com/