by Phil Blackwood | Jul 18, 2023 | gist & Open Standards
This blog post is for anyone responsible for Enterprise data management who would like to save time and costs by re-using a great piece of modeling work. It updates an earlier blog post, “A brief introduction to the gist semantic model”. A core semantic model, also...
by Phil Blackwood | Jun 8, 2023 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
This blog post is for anyone interested in mathematics and knowledge representation as associated with career progression in today’s changing information eco-system. Mathematics and knowledge representation have a strong common thread; they both require finding good...
by Dave McComb | Sep 12, 2022 | Business Case & ROI
Many developers pooh-pooh OWL (the dyslexic acronym for the Web Ontology Language). Many decry it as “too hard,” which seems bizarre, given that most developers I know pride themselves on their cleverness (and, as anyone who takes the time to learn OWL...
by Justin Dowdy | Aug 25, 2022 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
More times than not we receive pushback on the use of RDF (the standard model for data exchange on the web) being difficult. However, the simplicity of triplestores (Subject – Predicate – Object) and logically composing queries with the written language...
by Dave McComb | Nov 3, 2021 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
There is a meme floating around out in the internet ether these days: “Is OWL necessary, or can you do everything you need to with SHACL?” We use SHACL most days and OWL every day and we find it quite useful. It’s a matter of scope. If you limited your scope to...
