by Michael Uschold | Feb 10, 2017 | The Whiteboard
This blog follows from a recent blog by Dan Carey called Screwdrivers and Properties. It points to a longer whitepaper on the topic of avoiding property proliferation. One way we keep the number of primitives small is to avoid creating a subproperty if its meaning is...
by Dan Carey | Feb 7, 2017 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
Domain and range for ontological properties are not about data integrity, but logical necessity. Misusing them leads to an inelegant (and unnecessary) proliferation of properties. Logical Necessity Meets Elegance Screwdrivers generally have only a small set of head...
by Dan Carey | Jan 27, 2017 | The Whiteboard
Screwdrivers generally have only a small set of head configurations (flat, Phillips, hex) because the intention is to make accessing contents or securing parts easy (or at least uniform). Now imagine how frustrating it would be if every screw and bolt in your house or...
by Michael Uschold | Jan 26, 2017 | Semantics and Ontology
Sometimes when we’re designing ontologies we’re faced with design choices that would lead us to create what we call “binary instances” or a situation where it will take the instantiation of two instances (often of different classes) in order to capture one concept. ...
by Dave McComb | Jan 20, 2017 | The Whiteboard
I was just reading through what some folks have written on the Data-Centric Manifesto web site. Thought I’d capture some of the more poignant: “I believe [Linked] Data Centric approach is the way of the future. I am committing my company to assisting...
by Dave McComb | Dec 28, 2016 | The Whiteboard
Dave McComb discusses data lakes, schema, and data-centricity in his latest post on the Data Centric Revolution for The Data Administration Newsletter. Here’s a brief excerpt to pique your interest: “I think it is safe to say that there will be declared...
by Dave McComb | Sep 21, 2016 | Semantics and Ontology
In this column, I am making the case for Data Centric architectures for enterprises. There is a huge economic advantage to converting to the data-centric approach, but curiously few companies are making the transition. One reason may be the confusion of Data Centric...
by Michael Uschold | Jul 13, 2016 | The Whiteboard
Michael Uschold gave a talk at the International Workshop on Completing and Debugging the Semantic Web held in Crete on May 30, 2016. Here is a preview of the white paper, “Finding and Avoiding Bugs in Enterprise Ontologies” by Michael Uschold: Abstract:...
by Dave McComb | Jul 1, 2016 | The Whiteboard
At Semantic Arts, we recently decided to upgrade our internal system to turn something that was a not temporal (our billing rates) into something that was. Normally, that would be a pretty big change. As it turned out, it was pretty straightforward and could be done,...
by Dave McComb | Jun 29, 2016 | The Whiteboard
We have just launched our “FIBO Quick start” offering. If you are in the financial industry you likely have heard about the Financial Industry Business Ontology, which has been championed by the EDM Council, a consortium of virtually the entire...
