Investment Bank: Economic Architecture

Investment Bank: Economic Architecture We worked with a large investment bank who are embarking on a series of projects to further automate their back office. One of their first tasks was to understand in greater detail what all the 5,000 people in the back office...

Washington State: SOA Design and Ontology 

Washington State: SOA Design and Ontology  In our initial engagement, we did a rapid but detailed review of 200 applications, interfaces,  current initiatives, long-range plan, and a new system being proposed. We found several  areas where they could...

Extending an Upper-Level Ontology

Extending an Upper-Level Ontology  If you have been following my blogs over the past year or so, then you will know I am a big  fan of adopting an upper-level ontology to help bootstrap your own bespoke ontology  project. Of the available upper-level...
Resisting the Temptation of Fused Edges

Resisting the Temptation of Fused Edges

Fused Edges If you are doing domain modeling and using a graph database you might be tempted to use fused edges. You see them around the semantic web. But you should resist the temptation. What In a graph database a fused edge occurs when a domain modeler uses a...
How to SPARQL with tarql

How to SPARQL with tarql

To load existing data into a knowledge graph without writing code, try using the tarql program. Tarql takes comma-separated values (csv) as input, so if you have a way to put your existing data in csv format, you can then use tarql to convert the data to semantic...