by Dave McComb | Jul 14, 2014 | Semantics and Ontology
Gist is designed to have the maximum coverage of typical business ontology concepts with the fewest number of primitives and the least amount of ambiguity, known as a minimalist upper ontology. A title guaranteed to scare off just about everyone; if you’re not...
by Dave McComb | Jul 14, 2014 | Semantics and Ontology
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 | Semantics and Ontology
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 | Semantics and Ontology
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 Dave McComb | May 5, 2011 | Semantics and Ontology
Part 1 & Part 2 We just conducted a weeklong training session on OWL/DL and Ontology Engineering. Several of the participants will be attending the Semantic Technology Conference, and felt they will be getting a lot more out of the conference, because of the...
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...
