by Irene Polikoff | Nov 1, 2020 | Metadata Management, Blog, Best Practices
A business glossary is a collection of terms important to a business. Unlike dictionaries, which are more general collections of words, business glossaries only concern themselves with terms that are specific to a particular business and its area of operation. All...
by Irene Polikoff | Oct 28, 2020 | Blog, Best Practices
In this blog, we will explore approaches for post-processing a data source information to derive the foreign key relationships that are not readily available in a database schema. Some organizations may not use FOREIGN keys in their SQL databases due to performance...
by Irene Polikoff | Oct 28, 2020 | Blog, Data Fabric, Best Practices, Knowledge Graphs
In this post we will walk you through using GraphQL to read and write information captured in TopBraid EDG. A key capability in TopBraid EDG’s support of GraphQL is introspection – the ability to examine the type or properties of an object of interest at...
by Irene Polikoff | Jul 13, 2020 | Blog, Best Practices
Many of our customers need to configure TopBraid EDG to meet their unique requirements. TopBraid EDG is a low-code solution. This means that many types of configurations and customizations of EDG do not require programming. For example, EDG supports ability to do the...
by Irene Polikoff | Jun 29, 2020 | Blog, Best Practices, Ontology Modeling
If you are creating or modifying ontologies with TopBraid EDG, you have probably noticed that every new class you create is also a Node Shape. You may also noted that there is a separate panel called Node Shapes and classes do not show up on it even if they are Node...
by Irene Polikoff | Jun 29, 2020 | Ontology Modeling, Blog, Best Practices, Knowledge Graphs
If you are creating or modifying ontologies with TopBraid EDG, you may wonder “What are property shapes and how are they different from properties?”. All data captured by EDG is stored in its graph database. Graph are formed by linking together simple...
