gist: Buckets, Buckets Everywhere:  Who Knows What to Think We humans are categorizing machines, which is to say, we like to create metaphorical buckets and put things inside. But there are different kinds of buckets, and different ways to model them in  OWL and gist. The most common bucket represents a kind of thing, such as...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→

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→

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→

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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→

Dave McComb I read “How Big Things Get Done” when it first came out about six months ago.[1] I liked it then. But recently, I read another review of it, and another coin dropped. I’ll let you know what the coin was toward the end of this article, but first I need to give you my...Continue reading→

Phil Blackwood Every Enterprise can benefit from having a simple, standard way to represent quantitative data. In this blog post, we will provide examples of how to use the new gist model of quantitative data released in gist version 13. After illustrating key concepts, we will look at how all the pieces fit together and...Continue reading→

This article originally appeared at The Data-Centric Revolution: Best Practices and Schools of Ontology Design – TDAN.com. Subscribe to TDAN directly for this and other great content! I was recently asked to present “Enterprise Ontology Design and Implementation Best Practices” to a group of motivated ontologists and wanna-be ontologists. I was flattered to be asked,...Continue reading→