by Dave McComb | Feb 22, 2019 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
We’ve been asked to comment on the applicability of Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Technology in service of a couple of common use cases. We will draw on our own experience with client projects as well as some examples we have come to from networking with our peers....
by Dan Carey | Feb 7, 2017 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
Domain and range for ontological properties are not about data integrity, but logical necessity. Misusing them leads to an inelegant (and unnecessary) proliferation of properties. Logical Necessity Meets Elegance Screwdrivers generally have only a small set of head...
by Michael Uschold | Apr 22, 2016 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
We take a deep dive into the pragmatic issues regarding the use of inverse properties when creating OWL ontologies. Property Inverses and Perspectives It is important to understand that logically, both perspectives always exist; they are joined at the hip. If Michael...
by Dave McComb | Jun 25, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
The term “market” is a common term in the business industry. We talk about the automotive market, the produce market, the disk drive market, etc. And yet, what do we really mean when we use that term? It is an instructive question because very often CRM (Customer...
by Dave McComb | Jun 6, 2015 | Development, White Papers
This applies to URIs that a system needs to generate when it finds it needs to mint a new resource. I’ve been thinking a lot about automated URI assignment lately. In particular the scheme we’ve been using (relying on the database to maintain a “next...
by Dave McComb | Jun 5, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
Outlining three and a half ways that applications can have their schemas derived from enterprise ontologies. Many people (ok, a few people) have asked us: “what is the relationship between an ontology and an application?” We usually say, “That’s an excellent question”...
