by Dave McComb | Nov 24, 2014 | The Whiteboard
I wrote the following last year, and am inspired to share this more publicly, today, the Monday of Thanksgiving week, 2014. It is Thanksgiving Day, 2013 and I just came across an article describing how science has tied gratitude to “the tendency to feel more...
by Dave McComb | Nov 18, 2014 | The Whiteboard
We humans are categorizing machines, which is to say, we like to create metaphorical buckets, and put things inside. But there are different kinds of buckets, and different ways to model them in OWL and gist. The most common bucket represents a kind of thing, such as...
by Michael Uschold | Nov 4, 2014 | The Whiteboard
In a prior blog (SPARQL: Updating the URI of an owl:Class in place) we looked into how to use SPARQL to rename a class in a triple store. The main steps are below. We showed how to do this for the example of renaming the class veh:Auto to veh:Car. change the...
by Michael Uschold | Nov 4, 2014 | The Whiteboard
Background We have been developing solutions for our clients lately that involve loading an ontology into a triple store, and building a UI for data entry. One of the challenges is how to handle renaming things. If you want to change the URI of a class or property in...
by Dave McComb | Nov 3, 2014 | Semantics and Ontology
Many taxonomies, especially well designed taxonomies with many facets, have dimensions that consist of very few, often just two categories, however this may cause more harm than it's worth. It is tempting to give these Boolean like tags, such as "Yes"/"No" or "Y"/"N"...
by Dave McComb | Oct 20, 2014 | Semantics and Ontology
Perhaps the way to be ready for resolution is to flip from document-centric to data-centric. Build a system that expresses in real time, the on-going agreements between the many legal entities within the firm. Capture who is doing what for whom. We just completed a...
by Dave McComb | Oct 17, 2014 | The Whiteboard
We’ve found ourselves working with D3(d3js.org) more and more lately, both for clients and for our own projects. So far we’ve really just begun to scratch the surface of what it can do (if you’re unfamiliar, take a moment to browse the examples)....
by Michael Uschold | Oct 3, 2014 | Semantics and Ontology
Explore the relationship between Taxonomy and Ontology with this presentation by Michael Uschold from a keynote talk at the International Conference on Semantic Computing. Click Here to View The PDF The Menu (Taxonomy) vs. the Meal (Ontology) Taxonomy and Thesauri:...
by Dave McComb | Sep 12, 2014 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
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 major enterprises. In this paper, we...
by Dave McComb | Aug 29, 2014 | The Whiteboard
Gist is based on something we call “concrete abstractions” Most upper level ontologies are based on “abstract abstractions” that is, they are based on philosophical ideas that might be correct but are counter productive to try to...
