by Dan Carey | Jan 27, 2017 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
Screwdrivers generally have only a small set of head configurations (flat, Phillips, hex) because the intention is to make accessing contents or securing parts easy (or at least uniform). Now imagine how frustrating it would be if every screw and bolt in your house or...
by Michael Uschold | Apr 22, 2016 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
We take a deep dive into the pragmatic issues regarding the use of inverse properties when creating OWL ontologies. Property Inverses and Perspectives It is important to understand that logically, both perspectives always exist; they are joined at the hip. If Michael...
by Michael Uschold | Apr 15, 2016 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
Figure 1: Quantum Entanglement For a fuller treatment of this topic, see the whitepaper: Quantum Entanglement, Flipping Out and Inverse Properties. An OWL object property is a way that two individuals can be related to each other. Direction is important. For...
by Dave McComb | Oct 27, 2015 | gist & Open Standards
An exciting new standard is under development at the W3C to add some much needed functionality to OWL. The main goals are to provide a concise, uniform syntax (presently called SHACL for Shapes Constraint Language) for both describing and constraining the contents of...
by Dave McComb | Jun 5, 2015 | News & Community
In this write up I’ll try to capture the tone of the conference, what seemed to be important and what some of the more interesting presentations were. This was the first ever Conference on Service Oriented Computing. In some ways it was reminiscent of the first...
