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 Irene Polikoff | Nov 25, 2020 | Metadata Management, Blog, Ontology Modeling
Many of our customers use TopBraid EDG to capture information about their data and computer technology ecosystem. This includes data sources, business applications, stakeholders and processes they support. To make this possible TopQuadrant developed a suite of...
by Irene Polikoff | Jun 29, 2020 | Best Practices, Blog, 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 | Blog, Best Practices, Knowledge Graphs, Ontology Modeling
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...
by Irene Polikoff | Apr 13, 2020 | Blog, Ontology Modeling
If you are familiar with TopBraid Composer and are starting to use TopBraid EDG, one of your questions may be “How do I bring ontologies I have been developing in TBC into EDG?” Since EDG assigns a specific meaning to the term ontology and TBC does not, to...
by laura | Apr 8, 2020 | Ontology Modeling, Media Mention
TopQuadrant CTO Ralph Hodgson discusses how ontologies improve machine learning’s effectiveness in this article from insideBIGDATA. Read...
