by Dave McComb | May 21, 2015 | The Whiteboard
We recently conducted a webinar on How to Build an Agile Enterprise Ontology for Dataversity. Here are links to both the live recording and slides of the webinar from May 14, 2015.
by Dave McComb | May 1, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology
I get asked this question a lot, and I’d like to get your help in answering it. As co-chairman of the Semantic Technology Conference, I see lots of customer organizations experimenting and adopting semantic technologies – especially ontology-driven development...
by Dave McComb | Mar 25, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology
Revisiting Clay Shirky’s piece on the Semantic Web A friend recently sent me the link to Clay Shirky’s piece on the Semantic Web with “I assume you’ve seen this, what do you think?” I had seen it, but I hadn’t looked at it for years. So I went back for another...
by Michael Uschold | Mar 24, 2015 | The Whiteboard
We have a simple and effective way in gist to represent a wide range of physical quantities such as ‘82 kg’, ‘3 meters’ and ‘20 minutes’. Each quantity has a number and a unit, such as ‘meter’ or ‘second’. In addition to these simple units, we have unit...
by Dave McComb | Mar 2, 2015 | The Whiteboard
This blog is wholly inspired by an observation made by Dave McComb that collections and queries have an interesting relationship. Collections frequently arise when creating enterprise ontologies. In manufacturing, there are lists of approved suppliers and lists of...
by Dave McComb | Feb 27, 2015 | The Whiteboard
In 2013 marijuana became legal in Colorado and Washington. It did not escape the notice of our clients that all Semantic Arts staff are from those two states. Suspicions grew deeper when we told them about the large collaborative knowledge base called Freebase. The...
by Dave McComb | Feb 15, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
Encyclopedias are generally not intended to help with definition. An encyclopedia is useful in that once you know what something means, you can find out what else is known about it. Semantics is predicated on the idea of good definitions. However, most definitions are...
by Dave McComb | Jan 21, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
Semantic profiling is a technique using semantic-based tools and ontologies in order to gain a deeper understanding of the information being stored and manipulated in an existing system. In this paper we will describe an approach to understanding the data in an...
by Dave McComb | Jan 19, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology
Fractal geometry creates beautiful patterns from simple recursive algorithms. One of the things we find so appealing is their “self-similarity” at different scales. That is, as you zoom in to look at a detail under more magnification you see many of the same patterns...
by Dave McComb | Dec 23, 2014 | The Whiteboard
As the Season to be Jolly gets into full swing, I reflect one of my favorite ways to be jolly: laughter. What makes us laugh (or not) in a given situation? Some people just laugh, like my mother, who regularly burst into gales of laughter, for no apparent...
