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What is Software Architecture and How to Select an Effective Architect

by Dave McComb | Data-Centric Architecture

What is Software Architecture? Originally published as What is Software Architecture on August 1, 2010 As Howard Roark pointed out in “The Fountainhead” the difference between an artist and an architect, is that an architect needs a client. Software Architecture […]

A Semantic Enterprise Architecture

by Dave McComb | Data-Centric Architecture

We do enterprise architectures, service-oriented architectures, and semantics. I suppose it was just a matter of time until we put them together. This essay is a first look at what a semantic enterprise architecture might look like. What problem are […]

Dublin Core and OWL

by Michael Uschold | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies

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 […]

White Paper: Business Vocabularies

by Dave McComb | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies

Most companies of any size have created an internal Tower of Babel that frustrates all attempts to integrate their disparate systems.

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White Paper: Categories and Classes

by Dave McComb | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies

Getting the categories and classes distinction right is one of the key drivers of the cost of traditional systems. We’ve been working with two clients lately, both of whom are using an ontology as a basis for their SOA messages […]

Building Ontologies Visually Using OWL

by Michael Uschold | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies

Faced with the challenges of UML and other modeling notations, we developed our own Visio-based ontology authoring tool. We've been building large enterprise ontologies for our clients using the W3C web ontology language OWL. If you're not familiar with OWL, […]

The Return on Investment (ROI) for Architecture

by Dave McComb | Data-Centric Architecture

In brief: An enterprise architecture project can pay back a great deal, but over a long period, through lower maintenance costs, more reuse, and systems that are easier to change. That’s why it fits badly with ROI-based approval built for […]

White Paper: The Seven Faces of Dr. “Class”

by Dave McComb | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies

The Seven Faces of Dr. “Class”: Part 1 “Class” is a heavily overloaded term in computer science. Many technologies have implemented the concept slightly differently. In this paper we look at the sum total of concepts that might be implemented […]

FOIS Keynote: Ontology-Driven Information Systems

by Michael Uschold | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies

Orginally published in October 2008 The following paper was given as a keynote address at the 5th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems held in Saarbrücken, Germany in October 2008. Title: Ontology-Driven Information Systems: Past, Present and Future […]

Interviews on Business Semantics

by Dave McComb | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies

Links to two interviews with Dave regarding business semantics. Click here for an interview involving semantics, ontologies, and modeling. Click here for the transcript of an inteview, "Why is Business Semantics such a Hot Topic?"

Web 3.0

by Dave McComb | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies

I'm weighing in in favor of Web 3.0 as an alias for the Semantic Web. I'm weighing in in favor of Web 3.0 as an alias for the Semantic Web. I know there are a lot of people who will […]

Silos of Babel

by Dave McComb | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies

Semantic technology can be a 'lingua franca' to connect disparate information silos. Several speakers and writers have referred to the problem of systems integration as being one of getting systems written in different languages to communicate. Whenever I've heard or […]

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