by Dave McComb | Feb 14, 2011 | The Whiteboard
There are many differences between an ontologically inspired data model and a traditional data model, but it just occurred to me and I thought I should jot it down before it leaves me: the essential difference is in reducing complexity. By that I mean in the sense...
by Dave McComb | Feb 10, 2011 | The Whiteboard
How Can You Use an Enterprise Ontology? Dave McComb presented three brief case studies on the use of Enterprise Ontologies. These Enterprise Ontologies were presented at Sallie Mae, Procter and Gamble and LexisNexis at the OntologForum. Click here to view the case...
by Dave McComb | Feb 3, 2011 | The Whiteboard
A flat tree stump or rock at a convenient height can be used as a chair, but we would not usually call it a chair until someone sits on it. Something designed to be sat on (e.g. a kitchen chair) will always be thought of as a chair even when empty. What would you call...
by Dave McComb | Jan 28, 2011 | The Whiteboard
Role, the overloaded workhorse of the modeling world If you are a data modeler or an ontologist, sooner or later you come across “role” and it becomes the “go to” pattern for most of your design problems. I know, I’ve been there. With a...
by Dave McComb | Jan 27, 2011 | The Whiteboard
Michael Uschold was in the Fort for the last couple of days, and it sparked some interesting discussion on organizations in gist. In short we think we can now distinguish the broad range of types of organizations we want to cover (we want to include some non...
