by Dave McComb | Sep 12, 2013 | Data-Centric Architecture
Jan Voskuil, of Taxonic, recently sent me this white paper. It is excellent. It’s so good I put it in the taxonomic category, “I wish I would have written this”. But since I didn’t, I did the next best thing. Jan has agreed to let us host a...
by Dave McComb | Nov 1, 2012 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
Great question. This is an ongoing challenge because different parts of a company use terms differently. One rule of thumb is to avoid using terms that have many different meanings across the company – this will just cause confusion. Things can be set up so that local...
by Dave McComb | May 15, 2012 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
A good ontology simplifies your information management systems because it creates an enterprise-wide definition of what things are called and their interrelationships. In our experience, even the complex requirements of multi-billion, global companies can be organized...
by Dave McComb | May 15, 2012 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
The world of traditional information technology is black or white. If something isn’t the same, then it is different. Every new distinction requires the creation of a new table. This creates a problem because once a new table is created the concept is considered...
by Dave McComb | May 11, 2012 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
Since the semantic model is free of structure, it is easier to map concepts to different structural representations enabling reuse of classes and properties. Reuse is a profound way to reduce complexity. In a traditional system, attributes are not reused. Every time...
