by Dave McComb | May 1, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology
I get asked this question a lot, and I’d like to get your help in answering it. As co-chairman of the Semantic Technology Conference, I see lots of customer organizations experimenting and adopting semantic technologies – especially ontology-driven development...
by Dave McComb | Mar 25, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology
Revisiting Clay Shirky’s piece on the Semantic Web A friend recently sent me the link to Clay Shirky’s piece on the Semantic Web with “I assume you’ve seen this, what do you think?” I had seen it, but I hadn’t looked at it for years. So I went back for another...
by Dave McComb | Feb 15, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
Encyclopedias are generally not intended to help with definition. An encyclopedia is useful in that once you know what something means, you can find out what else is known about it. Semantics is predicated on the idea of good definitions. However, most definitions are...
by Dave McComb | Jan 21, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
Semantic profiling is a technique using semantic-based tools and ontologies in order to gain a deeper understanding of the information being stored and manipulated in an existing system. In this paper we will describe an approach to understanding the data in an...
by Dave McComb | Jan 19, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology
Fractal geometry creates beautiful patterns from simple recursive algorithms. One of the things we find so appealing is their “self-similarity” at different scales. That is, as you zoom in to look at a detail under more magnification you see many of the same patterns...
by Dave McComb | Nov 3, 2014 | Semantics and Ontology
Many taxonomies, especially well designed taxonomies with many facets, have dimensions that consist of very few, often just two categories, however this may cause more harm than it's worth. It is tempting to give these Boolean like tags, such as "Yes"/"No" or "Y"/"N"...
