by Dave McComb | Mar 19, 2013 | The Whiteboard
Gartner has, finally, nominated Semantic Technology as one of their Top Technology Trends. We’ve seen this movie before. We know how it ends. Indeed it was Gartner themselves who named the plot trajectory: the “hype cycle.” It’s worth a pause...
by Dave McComb | Feb 4, 2013 | The Whiteboard
We were working with a client recently who wanted to incorporate their existing taxonomies into their newly forming enterprise ontology. It was, as they say, a “teachable moment.” Not all taxonomies are created equal. At least not with regard to...
by Dave McComb | Dec 6, 2012 | The Whiteboard
First, you need to know what the original objectives were for having the ontology. The more specific the objectives, the easier it is to test whether they have been met. If you never had any objectives (or requirements), it might be easier to declare success, but...
by Dave McComb | Nov 12, 2012 | The Whiteboard
A good place to start is to run an inference engine to see if there an any logical inconsistencies or classes that cannot possibly have any members. The former is always an error; the latter usually leads to an error. However, this is only the beginning. Plenty of...
by Dave McComb | Nov 9, 2012 | The Whiteboard
This is a question of scope. An ontology is complete if it has all the concepts and axioms that are needed. Needed for what? This depends on the intended purpose of the ontology. If you have a local, one-time need to integrate a small number of databases, then you...
