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Best Approaches for Using and Extending FIBO Vocabulary

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...

Why I Use SHACL For Defining Ontology Models

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...

What Are Classonomies – and why you may want to avoid them

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....

Why I Don’t Use OWL Anymore

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. I now use SHACL...

RDF-Star – Why, how and when should you use it?

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...

Reification – Capturing facts about facts

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...