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SHACL and OWL

SHACL and OWL

There is a meme floating around out in the internet ether these days: “Is OWL necessary, or can you do everything you need to with SHACL?” We use SHACL most days and OWL every day and we find it quite useful. It’s a matter of scope. If you limited your scope to...

What is a Market?

In brief: A market, as this post defines it, is a category based on a tacit agreement between a group of buyers and sellers about which selection criteria matter for an offering. Markets form when customers start choosing on one or two characteristics of an offering,...

The Enterprise Ontology

In brief: An enterprise ontology is a specification of the concepts an enterprise uses, expressed precisely enough that computer systems can interpret it and draw inferences from it, with the familiar terms attached afterward. Its purpose is to give all of an...