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The Treaty of Tordesillas

by | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies

What history can teach us about semantics. Lately we’ve been grappling with the issue of how to get a Semantics Inference Engine and a Business Rules Engine to play nice in an Enterprise Architecture. Some long dormant neuron fired and the Treaty of Tordesillas was...

The Problem with Default Values

by | Development

In brief: A default value is a value a system fills in for the user, such as the current date, the most common category, or a copy of the last entry, to speed up data entry. The trouble comes later, in analysis: when nobody can tell whether a user chose a value or let...