by Dave McComb | Jul 22, 2014 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
System project failures are a well-known part of systems development; however, all the potential risks of planning and executing a project effort are not. This white paper offers heuristic guidelines to help IS managers assess these inherent risk factors before...
by Dave McComb | Jul 14, 2014 | 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...
by Dave McComb | Jun 3, 2014 | 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...
by Dave McComb | May 13, 2014 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
Semantic technology resources I was alerted to this site: www.semantisize.com from a comment. It’s pretty cool. You can while away a lot of time on this site which is rounding up lots of podcasts, videos, etc., all related to Semantic Technology. I got a kick...
by Michael Uschold | Aug 22, 2013 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
Michael Uschold, Semantic Arts Senior Ontologist, will share a six part series on the importance of distinguishing terms from concepts when building enterprise ontologies for corporate clients. This first article summarizes five key points; each is elaborated in...
by Dave McComb | Nov 1, 2012 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
Great question. This is an ongoing challenge because different parts of a company use terms differently. One rule of thumb is to avoid using terms that have many different meanings across the company – this will just cause confusion. Things can be set up so that local...
