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Siemens: XSearch and Engineering Ontology
by Semantic Arts | Manufacturing & Industrial
A semantic foundation for enterprise search across Siemens’ engineering systems, starting with a gist-based ontology of about 50 core concepts. It grew into a foundation for the company’s digital twin work.
Shadow AI vs Shadow AI IT: The Next Enterprise Risk
by Dave McComb | AI-Ready Data
Shadow AI—the unsanctioned use of generative AI tools by employees—is emerging as a major enterprise risk. This article explains how it differs from Shadow IT, why it’s harder to detect, and how data-centric architecture can help organizations govern AI safely.
Industry Knowledge Graph™ Case Study
by Semantic Arts | Information Services & Media, Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
Written by Michael Atkin In 1978 the owner of the New England Patriots made a famous commercial after his wife gave him a Remmington electric razor—“I liked the razor so much, I bought the company.” In the case of the […]
The Data-Centric Revolution: Evolution of Metrics in a Data-Centric Enterprise
by Dave McComb | Business Case & ROI
A six-step progression for enterprise metrics, from measuring and cleaning up through formal semantics, calibration, action, and root cause to better metrics, worked through with aging accounts receivable.
gistBFO: An Open-Source, BFO Compatible Version of gist
by Semantic Arts | gist & Open Standards
An alignment of gist with the Basic Formal Ontology, the ISO standard upper ontology, so you can model with gist and still map your data to BFO. A paper by Dylan Abney and colleagues at Semantic Arts and the University […]
Client 360—A Foundational Challenge
by Dave McComb | Financial Services
The collapse of Lehman Brothers showed how hard it is to know who owns what. Why a single view of the client is still so hard in financial services, and how semantic standards for clients and legal entities make it […]
Semantic Arts’ Secret Sauce
by Semantic Arts | News & Community
Semantic Arts became an employee-governed company in 2025. What that means, why it isn’t employee ownership, and the values and everyday practices behind how the firm works with its people and its clients.
Semantic Arts’ 25 Year History
by Semantic Arts | News & Community
Only about 14 percent of the Colorado companies founded in 2000 were still around in 2024. Three lessons from 25 years in semantics, and a history of Semantic Arts from its founding in 2000.
Financial Services Regulatory Issue Brief
by Dave McComb | Financial Services
Basel III, T+1 settlement, the FDTA standards, and the other regulatory changes facing financial institutions, what each one means for their data, and why a knowledge graph deals with the root cause.
Semantic Arts, Inc. Celebrates its 25th Anniversary
by Semantic Arts | News & Community
Semantic Arts marks 25 years of data-centric work, with more than 100 projects, gist, and clients including Amgen, Broadridge, and Morgan Stanley.
Building an Ontology with LLMs
by Dave McComb | AI-Ready Data
An LLM can produce an ontology that loads and passes a reasoner in minutes. Why Dave McComb would still throw out every line of it, and what LLMs are good for instead.
The year of the Knowledge Graph (2025)
by Dave McComb | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
2001, 2010, and 2012 were each billed as the year of the knowledge graph. Why 2025 looks different, from moves by ServiceNow, SAP, Samsung, and AWS to GraphRAG.
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