by Phil Blackwood | May 20, 2022 | The Whiteboard
To load existing data into a knowledge graph without writing code, try using the tarql program. Tarql takes comma-separated values (csv) as input, so if you have a way to put your existing data in csv format, you can then use tarql to convert the data to semantic...
by Dave McComb | Mar 8, 2022 | Software Architecture, The Whiteboard
I’m reading the book Kill it with Fire by Marianne Bellotti. It is a delightful book. Plenty of pragmatic advice, both on the architectural side (how to think through whether and when to break up that monolith) and the organizational side (how to get and maintain...
by Dave McComb | Nov 3, 2021 | The Whiteboard
There is a meme floating around out in the internet ether these days: “Is OWL necessary, or can you do everything you need to with SHACL?” We use SHACL most days and OWL every day and we find it quite useful. It’s a matter of scope. If you limited your scope to...
by Dave McComb | Sep 9, 2021 | The Whiteboard
What is a Market? The term “market” is a very common term in the business industry. We talk about the automotive market, the produce market, the disk drive market, etc. And yet, what do we really mean when we use that term? It is an instructive...
by Dave McComb | Sep 1, 2021 | The Whiteboard
Gartner has put “Knowledge Graphs” at the peak of inflated expectations. If you are a Knowledge Graph software vendor, this might be good news. Companies will be buying knowledge graphs without knowing what they are. I’m reminded of an old cartoon of an executive...
by Dave McComb | Aug 17, 2021 | The Whiteboard
The Enterprise Ontology At the time of this writing almost no enterprises in North America have a formal enterprise ontology. Yet we believe that within a few years this will become one of the foundational pieces to most information system work within...
by Dave McComb | Jun 29, 2021 | The Whiteboard
For the last 20 years, Semantic Arts has been helping firms design and build enterprise ontologies to get them on the data-centric path. We have learned many lessons from the enterprise that can be applied in the construction of smart city ontologies. What is similar...
by Peter Winstanley | Jun 22, 2021 | The Whiteboard
There was a time when RDF and triplestores were only seen through the lens of massive data integration. Teams went to great extremes to show how many gazillion triples per second their latest development could ingest, and large integrations did likewise with enormous...
by Dave McComb | Jun 2, 2021 | The Whiteboard
One of the ideas we promote is elegance in the core data model in a Data-Centric enterprise. This is harder than it sounds. Look at most application-centric data models: you would think they would be simpler than the enterprise model, after all, they are a small...
by Semantic Arts Admin | Mar 25, 2021 | The Whiteboard
Achieving clarity in your data ecosystem is more difficult than ever these days. With false news, cyber-attacks, social media, and a consistent blitz of propaganda – how does one sort it all out? Even our data and information practices have suffered from this...
