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The Treaty of Tordesillas

by | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies

What history can teach us about semantics. Lately we’ve been grappling with the issue of how to get a Semantics Inference Engine and a Business Rules Engine to play nice in an Enterprise Architecture. Some long dormant neuron fired and the Treaty of Tordesillas was...

Necessary and Sufficient

by | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies

What’s the real difference between necessary and sufficient? We just completed another training class, and like they say, “no one learns more than the instructor.” In this case the blindingly obvious and yet elusive pattern that revealed itself was...

Time Zones

by | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies

Reflections on low-level ontology primitives. We had a workshop last week on gist (our minimalist upper ontology). As part of the aftermath, I decided to get a bit more rigorous about some of the lowest level primitives. One of the basic ideas about gist is that you...