by Irene Polikoff | Jul 9, 2021 | Blog, Best Practices, Ontology Modeling
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 | Blog, Vocabulary Management, Best Practices, Business Glossaries, Taxonomies
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 | May 30, 2021 | Ontology Modeling, Blog, Best Practices, Uncategorized
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 21, 2021 | Blog, Best Practices, Ontology Modeling
In the previous blog we discussed what is reification and how you could implement it when working with knowledge graphs. In this blog, we will focus on one approach, RDF-star, and its support in TopBraid EDG. As mentioned before, RDF-star is a proposed extension to...
by Irene Polikoff | May 20, 2021 | Blog, Best Practices, Ontology Modeling
What is Reification? While the name may sound complex, the concept is easy to understand. Reification is a technical term used in talking about possible approaches to making statements about facts captured in a graph. Let’s look at a simple example: Consider a...
by Kristi Lee-John | Jan 12, 2021 | Best Practices, Media Mention, Blog
Mapping data’s flow throughout the enterprise is pivotal for securing information assets and meeting regulatory requirements. Learn more from the experts, including Irene Polikoff and Robert Coyne of TopQuadrant, in this article from KMWorld. Read...
