by Irene Polikoff | Jul 9, 2021 | Ontology Modeling, Best Practices, Blog
Relationships in RDF graphs have a direction. Frequently, direction is clear from the name of the relationship. For example, John receives Employee of the Year 2020 Award. It is clear from the name of the relationship receives that the direction is from John to the...
by Irene Polikoff | Jun 8, 2021 | Taxonomies, Business Glossaries, Best Practices, Vocabulary Management, Blog
This blog discusses approaches for using and extending FIBO Vocabulary or FIBO-V released by the EDM Council. FIBO contains definitions for many commonly used financial terms, making it a great resource for the financial services firms wanting to establish a business...
by Irene Polikoff | Jun 1, 2021 | Ontology Modeling, Blog
This is the second blog on what modeling language we recommend to use when creating ontologies. In the previous blog, I talked about what I do not use and why. In this blog I will talk about what I do use. The idea for these two blogs came from a question asked by a...
by Irene Polikoff | May 30, 2021 | Uncategorized, Ontology Modeling, Best Practices, Blog
Classonomy is a word I heard recently from a colleague. It is not real word, but a made up term that resonated with me because it describes well a specific type of ontologies I come across frequently – especially, but not limited to, in the Life Sciences domain....
by Irene Polikoff | May 23, 2021 | Ontology Modeling, Blog
The idea for this blog came from a question asked by a customer. They said: “When do you use OWL and when do you use SHACL? Isn’t OWL about semantics and SHACL about data validation? And what about RDFS?” My answer was that I no longer used RDFS/OWL....
