by Dave McComb | Jun 6, 2015 | Development, White Papers
This applies to URIs that a system needs to generate when it finds it needs to mint a new resource. I’ve been thinking a lot about automated URI assignment lately. In particular the scheme we’ve been using (relying on the database to maintain a “next...
by Dave McComb | Jun 5, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
Outlining three and a half ways that applications can have their schemas derived from enterprise ontologies. Many people (ok, a few people) have asked us: “what is the relationship between an ontology and an application?” We usually say, “That’s an excellent question”...
by Dave McComb | Jun 5, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
Loose coupling has been a Holy Grail for systems developers for generations. The virtues of loose coupling have been widely lauded, yet there has been little description about what is needed to achieve loose coupling. In this paper we describe our observations from...
by Dave McComb | Jun 5, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
Encarta defines veracity as “the truth, accuracy or precision of something” and that seems like a pretty good place to start. Our systems don’t model uncertainty very well, and yet that is exactly what we deal with on a day-to-day basis. This paper examines one aspect...
by Dave McComb | Jun 5, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
In this write up I’ll try to capture the tone of the conference, what seemed to be important and what some of the more interesting presentations were. This was the first ever Conference on Service Oriented Computing. In some ways it was reminiscent of the first...
