by Dave McComb | Jul 22, 2011 | The Whiteboard
Just read an interesting article: Refactoring the Law: Reformulating Legal Ontologies, by Garret Wilson, which was quite interesting. Wilson, presumably a nerd turned lawyer or vice versa, makes the case that the understanding and practice of law have been evolving in...
by Dave McComb | Jun 1, 2011 | The Whiteboard
Nearly 100 people in the international ontology community met this past April 18-19 at the sixth annual Ontology Summit to discuss “making the case for ontology.” In recent years the number of deployed ontologies has increased dramatically, yet the...
by Dave McComb | May 27, 2011 | The Whiteboard
There was an article in this month’s Harvard Business Review “What Makes a Team Smarter? More Women” “> The methodology of the study was they measured IQs of individuals and then sometimes randomly and sometimes not so randomly assigned them...
by Dave McComb | May 5, 2011 | Semantics and Ontology
Part 1 & Part 2 We just conducted a weeklong training session on OWL/DL and Ontology Engineering. Several of the participants will be attending the Semantic Technology Conference, and felt they will be getting a lot more out of the conference, because of the...
by Dave McComb | Apr 7, 2011 | The Whiteboard
Todd Schneider and Ali Hashemi came up with this in the Ontology Forum email today: Every person, organization or system has an ontology – the things presumed to exist in the world and how they behave. Interactions with the world are based on these internal...
by Dave McComb | Mar 31, 2011 | The Whiteboard
Reid Hoffman, of LinkedIn, came up with this tag line in a video I watched where he talked about Web 3.0. While it was a very Web 2.0 view of Web 3.0, that phrase “the data is the platform” really resonated. I actually do think this is the future. The...
by Dave McComb | Mar 27, 2011 | The Whiteboard
As a few of you know, in our ontology building class we use an example of building an ontology that can determine which flights are international (from a US perspective). We use this example at least in part to show how solving the generalized problem (international...
by Dave McComb | Feb 24, 2011 | The Whiteboard
I just got back from another trip to DC, and I’m struck by two things: Everyone (well the males over the drinking age anyway) wear ties. I may have to recycle my tie collection if I’m to spend much more time there — luckily there is a very low bar...
by Dave McComb | Feb 14, 2011 | The Whiteboard
There are many differences between an ontologically inspired data model and a traditional data model, but it just occurred to me and I thought I should jot it down before it leaves me: the essential difference is in reducing complexity. By that I mean in the sense...
by Dave McComb | Feb 10, 2011 | The Whiteboard
How Can You Use an Enterprise Ontology? Dave McComb presented three brief case studies on the use of Enterprise Ontologies. These Enterprise Ontologies were presented at Sallie Mae, Procter and Gamble and LexisNexis at the OntologForum. Click here to view the case...
