by Dave McComb | Nov 18, 2014 | The Whiteboard
We humans are categorizing machines, which is to say, we like to create metaphorical buckets, and put things inside. But there are different kinds of buckets, and different ways to model them in OWL and gist. The most common bucket represents a kind of thing, such as...
by Dave McComb | Nov 3, 2014 | Semantics and Ontology
Many taxonomies, especially well designed taxonomies with many facets, have dimensions that consist of very few, often just two categories, however this may cause more harm than it's worth. It is tempting to give these Boolean like tags, such as "Yes"/"No" or "Y"/"N"...
by Dave McComb | Oct 20, 2014 | Semantics and Ontology
Perhaps the way to be ready for resolution is to flip from document-centric to data-centric. Build a system that expresses in real time, the on-going agreements between the many legal entities within the firm. Capture who is doing what for whom. We just completed a...
by Dave McComb | Oct 17, 2014 | The Whiteboard
We’ve found ourselves working with D3(d3js.org) more and more lately, both for clients and for our own projects. So far we’ve really just begun to scratch the surface of what it can do (if you’re unfamiliar, take a moment to browse the examples)....
by Dave McComb | Sep 12, 2014 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
At the time of this writing almost no enterprises in North America have a formal enterprise ontology. Yet we believe that within a few years this will become one of the foundational pieces to most information system work within major enterprises. In this paper, we...
