by Dave McComb | Feb 3, 2011 | The Whiteboard
A flat tree stump or rock at a convenient height can be used as a chair, but we would not usually call it a chair until someone sits on it. Something designed to be sat on (e.g. a kitchen chair) will always be thought of as a chair even when empty. What would you call...
by Dave McComb | Jan 28, 2011 | The Whiteboard
Role, the overloaded workhorse of the modeling world If you are a data modeler or an ontologist, sooner or later you come across “role” and it becomes the “go to” pattern for most of your design problems. I know, I’ve been there. With a...
by Dave McComb | Jan 27, 2011 | The Whiteboard
Michael Uschold was in the Fort for the last couple of days, and it sparked some interesting discussion on organizations in gist. In short we think we can now distinguish the broad range of types of organizations we want to cover (we want to include some non...
by Dave McComb | Jan 21, 2011 | The Whiteboard
Matt Hannifin, who runs Science Toy Magic (at the bottom of the stairs in the entry to our office) reminded me of two things today: 1) The value of keeping good statistics — he keeps detailed records not only of all his sales but where his leads came from, etc....
by Semantic Arts Admin | Aug 31, 2010 | Software Architecture
What is Software Architecture? Originally published as What is Software Architecture on August 1, 2010 As Howard Roark pointed out in “The Fountainhead” the difference between an artist and an architect, is that an architect needs a client. Software Architecture is...
by Dave McComb | Aug 25, 2010 | Software Architecture
We do enterprise architectures, service-oriented architectures, and semantics. I suppose it was just a matter of time until we put them together. This essay is a first look at what a semantic enterprise architecture might look like. What problem are we trying to...
by Michael Uschold | Aug 11, 2010 | Semantics and Ontology
Why isn’t there an OWL version of Dublin Core? We’ve known about the Dublin Core (http://www.dublincore.org/) pretty much forever. We know it has a following in Library Science and content management systems, and Adobe uses their tags as the basis for the...
by Dave McComb | Aug 11, 2010 | Development
When are Two Service Implementations Better than One? The Case for the Shared Service Lite One of the huge potential benefits of an SOA is the possibility of eliminating the need to re-implement large chunks of application functionality by using shared services. For...
by Dave McComb | Aug 1, 2010 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
Most companies of any size have created an internal Tower of Babel that frustrates all attempts to integrate their disparate systems. Download the White-paper
by Dave McComb | Aug 1, 2010 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
Getting the categories and classes distinction right is one of the key drivers of the cost of traditional systems. We’ve been working with two clients lately, both of whom are using an ontology as a basis for their SOA messages as well as the design of their future...
