Ontology Consultant Job Description As a Semantic Arts ontologist, you will be essential in fixing the tangled mess of information in  client enterprise systems and promoting a world where enterprise information is widely  understood and easily accessed by all who have permission. Come work with the best in the  business on interesting projects with global...Continue reading→

Data-Centric Credentialling In order to ensure that clients can get what they expect when they buy software or services that purport to be “data-centric” we are going to implement a credentialling program. The program will be available at three levels.  Implementation Awards  These are assessments and awards given to clients for projects or enterprises to...Continue reading→

The Data-Centric Graph Tech Stack  Virtually all technology projects these days start with a “tech stack.” The tech stack is a primarily a description of the languages, libraries and middleware that will be  used to implement a project. Data-Centric projects too, have a stack, but the relative importance of some parts of the stack are...Continue reading→

Amgen: Data Centric Architecture Amgen is a large biotechnology company committed to unlocking the potential of  biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing,  manufacturing, and delivering innovative human therapeutics. Amgen, CEO Bob Bradway focuses on innovation to set the cultural direction. According to Bradway: “Push the  boundaries of biotechnology and knowledge to...Continue reading→

Telecom Framework Model: Simplified with gist We recently recast large portions of the telecom Frameworkx Information Model into an  Enterprise Ontology using patterns and reusable parts of the gist upper ontology. We found that extending gist with the information content of the Frameworx model yields a simple telecom model that is easy to manage, federate,...Continue reading→

Knowledge Graph Modeling:  Time Series Micro-Pattern Using gist  For any enterprise, being able to model time series is more than just important, in many cases it is critical. There are many examples, but some trivial ones include “Person is employed By Employer” (Employment date-range), “Business has Business Address”  (Established Location date-range), “Manager supervises Member Of Staff”...Continue reading→

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 ontologies I happen to like gist as it embraces a “less is...Continue reading→

A BFO-ready version of gist  The Federal Government and Life Sciences Life Sciences companies are moving toward adoption of the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO).   We have aligned the Semantic Arts foundational ontology (gist) with BFO  to help these communities.  This paper describes how and why we did this.  Background  An upper ontology is a high-level...Continue reading→

Understanding the Graph Center of  Excellence  The Knowledge Management community has gotten good at extracting and curating  knowledge.  There is a confluence of activity – including generative AI models, digital twins and shared ledger capabilities that are having a profound impact on enterprises. Recent research by analysts at Gartner places contextualized information and graph technologies...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→