by Michael Uschold | Jul 13, 2016 | The Whiteboard
Michael Uschold gave a talk at the International Workshop on Completing and Debugging the Semantic Web held in Crete on May 30, 2016. Here is a preview of the white paper, “Finding and Avoiding Bugs in Enterprise Ontologies” by Michael Uschold: Abstract:...
by Michael Uschold | Apr 22, 2016 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
We take a deep dive into the pragmatic issues regarding the use of inverse properties when creating OWL ontologies. Property Inverses and Perspectives It is important to understand that logically, both perspectives always exist; they are joined at the hip. If Michael...
by Michael Uschold | Apr 15, 2016 | The Whiteboard
Figure 1: Quantum Entanglement For a fuller treatment of this topic, see the whitepaper: Quantum Entanglement, Flipping Out and Inverse Properties. An OWL object property is a way that two individuals can be related to each other. Direction is important. For...
by Michael Uschold | Mar 24, 2015 | The Whiteboard
We have a simple and effective way in gist to represent a wide range of physical quantities such as ‘82 kg’, ‘3 meters’ and ‘20 minutes’. Each quantity has a number and a unit, such as ‘meter’ or ‘second’. In addition to these simple units, we have unit...
by Michael Uschold | Nov 4, 2014 | The Whiteboard
In a prior blog (SPARQL: Updating the URI of an owl:Class in place) we looked into how to use SPARQL to rename a class in a triple store. The main steps are below. We showed how to do this for the example of renaming the class veh:Auto to veh:Car. change the...
