gistBFO: An Open-Source, BFO Compatible Version of gist  Dylan ABNEY a,1, Katherine STUDZINSKI a, Giacomo DE COLLE b,c,  Finn WILSON b,c, Federico DONATO b,c, and John BEVERLEY b,c aSemantic Arts, Inc.  bUniversity at Buffalo  cNational Center for Ontological Research  ORCiD ID: Dylan Abney https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4832-2900, Katherine Studzinski  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-3933-0643, Giacomo De Colle https://orcid.org/0000- 0002-3600-6506, Finn Wilson https://orcid.org/0009-0002-7282-0836,...Continue reading→

Client 360 – A Foundational Challenge When Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008, CROs, CFOs and chief compliance officers were stuck  pouring through annual reports and frantically searching within corporate documents to  determine Lehman’s actual corporate structure – including who was bankrupt, who funded  whom, who guaranteed what, and who would hold the obligations when everything...Continue reading→

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Semantic Arts’Secret Sauce An organization founded by an individual or small group is deeply shaped by the priorities and capabilities of its founder(s), as well as the market and industry it enters. The baseline requirement for any startup is to identify and meet the needs of specific types of customer or clients to sustain and...Continue reading→

Semantic Arts Enters Its’ 25th Year According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 15,336 companies were founded in Colorado in the year 2000. By 2024, only 2,101 of those companies remained. While we can speculate endlessly about why just ~14% survived recessions, pandemics, and international conflicts, the impression is clear. The organizations that endured…...Continue reading→

Financial Services Regulatory Issue Brief  Leading analysts all share a similar view about global financial regulatory priorities. Complexity will  continue to increase with geopolitical events and regulatory fragmentation on the rise. The global economic environment will remain a key concern. There will be a push toward harmonized enforcement from financial crime and sanctions from war. And...Continue reading→

Semantic Arts, Inc. Celebrates its 25th Anniversary Pioneering Data-Centric Transformations to Modernize IT Architecture, Advance Knowledge Systems, and Enable Foundational AI CONTACT INFO: Dave McComb Phone: (970) 490-2224 Email: [email protected] Website: https://www.semanticarts.com/ Fort Collins, Colorado – August 14, 2025: According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 15,336 companies were founded in Colorado in the...Continue reading→

Building an Ontology with LLMs We implement Enterprise Knowledge Graphs for our clients. One of the key skills in doing so is ontology modeling. One might think that with the onslaught of ChatGPT and the resulting death knell of professional services, we’d be worried. We’re not. We are using LLMs in our practice, and we...Continue reading→

The year of the Knowledge Graph (2025) There are a lot of signals converging on this being the year of the Knowledge Graph.   Before we get too carried away with this prognosis, let’s review some of the previous candidates for year of the Knowledge Graph, and see why they didn’t work out.   2001  Clearly the...Continue reading→

Team Building – The Importance of an Ontology Effective communication is something that many in the C-suite aspire to have in their organization. But what does this really entail in practice? At one level, it is about the high-level aspirations of the organization, the expectations of clients, the hopes of investors, and so on. At...Continue reading→