by Michael Uschold | Apr 28, 2014 | The Whiteboard
In my previous post, I explained why, when building an enterprise ontology, it is a good idea to focus on concepts first and to decide on terms later. Today, we will discuss what to do when ‘later’ arrives. But first, if terms don’t matter from a...
by Michael Uschold | Apr 22, 2014 | The Whiteboard
aIn the previous posts in the series, we discussed how it is important to focus on the concepts first and then the terms. Today we discuss identifying what the central concepts are in the enterprise. Every enterprise typically has a small handful of core concepts that...
by Michael Uschold | Apr 15, 2014 | The Whiteboard
In my previous blog, I described how for very broad and general terms, it can be nearly impossible to get a roomful of experts to agree on a definition of the term. However, it can be relatively easy to identify a small set of core concepts that everyone agrees are...
by Michael Uschold | Aug 22, 2013 | The Whiteboard
Michael Uschold, Semantic Arts Senior Ontologist, will share a six part series on the importance of distinguishing terms from concepts when building enterprise ontologies for corporate clients. This first article summarizes five key points; each is elaborated in...
by Michael Uschold | Aug 11, 2010 | Semantics and Ontology
Why isn’t there an OWL version of Dublin Core? We’ve known about the Dublin Core (http://www.dublincore.org/) pretty much forever. We know it has a following in Library Science and content management systems, and Adobe uses their tags as the basis for the...
