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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 […]
gist: Buckets, Buckets Everywhere: Who Knows What to Think
by Michael Uschold | gist & Open Standards
Classes, collections, and tags are three different kinds of buckets. How to tell them apart and how to model each one in OWL and gist.
A BFO-ready version of gist
by Dave McComb | gist & Open Standards
The Federal Government and Life Sciences companies are moving toward adoption of the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO). We have aligned the Semantic Arts foundational ontology (gist) with BFO to help these communities. This paper describes how and why we did […]
The New gist Model for Quantitative Data
by Phil Blackwood | gist & Open Standards
Phil Blackwood Every Enterprise can benefit from having a simple, standard way to represent quantitative data. In this blog post, we will provide examples of how to use the new gist model of quantitative data released in gist version 13. […]
gist Jumpstart
by Phil Blackwood | gist & Open Standards
This blog post is for anyone responsible for Enterprise data management who would like to save time and costs by re-using a great piece of modeling work. It updates an earlier blog post, “A brief introduction to the gist semantic […]
The ABCs of QUDT
by Phil Blackwood | gist & Open Standards
QUDT — Quantities, Units, Dimensions and Types — is the open standard for representing units of measurement in semantic data. This is a practical introduction: what QUDT is, why enterprise data models need it, and how it relates to gist, […]
Extending an upper-level ontology (like GIST)
by Semantic Arts | gist & Open Standards
Michael Sullivan is a Principal Cloud Solutions Architect at Oracle. Article reprinted with permission (original is here) If you have been following my blogs over the past year or so, then you will know I am a big fan of […]
Get the gist: start building simplicity now
by Dave McComb | gist & Open Standards
While organizing data has always been important, a noticeably profound interest in optimizing information models with Semantic Knowledge graphs has arisen. LinkedIn, AirBnB, in addition to giants Google and Amazon use graphs, but without a model for connecting concepts with […]
A Brief Introduction to the gist Semantic Model
by Dave McComb | gist & Open Standards
Phil Blackwood, Ph.D. It’s no secret that most companies have silos of data and continue to create new silos. Data that has the same meaning is often represented hundreds or thousands of different ways as new data models are introduced […]
A Mathematician and an Ontologist walk into a bar…
by Phil Blackwood | gist & Open Standards
The Ontologist and Mathematician should be able to find common ground because Cantor introduced set theory into the foundation of mathematics, and W3C OWL uses set theory as a foundation for ontology language. Let’s listen in as they mash up […]
The gist Namespace Delimiter: Hash to Slash
by Dave McComb | gist & Open Standards
The change in gist: We recently changed the namespace for gist from http://ontologies.semanticarts.com/gist# to http://ontologies.semanticarts.com/gist/ What you need to do: This change is backwards-incompatible with existing versions of gist. The good news is that the changes needed are straightforward. To […]
What’s exciting about SHACL: RDF Data Shapes
by Dave McComb | gist & Open Standards
An exciting new standard is under development at the W3C to add some much needed functionality to OWL. The main goals are to provide a concise, uniform syntax (presently called SHACL for Shapes Constraint Language) for both describing and constraining […]
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