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Overview of TopBraid EDG Ontologies

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 process they support. To make this possible TopQuadrant developed a suite of interconnected models – TopBraid EDG ontologies. In this blog, we will take a look at them.

EU Open Data in TopBraid EDG

This is the second blog in TopQuadrant’s series of blogs about Open Data catalogs of datasets. The first blog was about the EU Open Data Portal, its capabilities and its use of RDF technologies and, specifically, DCAT vocabulary. This blog shows a searchable interactive Open Data catalog in TopBraid EDG, using EDG’s out of the box capabilities to host datasets downloaded from the EU Open Data Portal.

Exploring EU Open Data Portal

Recently, we have been hearing from a number of organizations in Europe and the United States that want to make available a catalog of datasets similar to the EU Open Data Portal. In response to this interest, we decided to write a series of blogs on this topic:

This first blog is about the EU Open Data Portal, its capabilities and its use of RDF technologies and, specifically, DCAT vocabulary.

Mapping Data Elements to Business Terms

A business glossary is a collection of terms important to a business. Mapping and linking IT assets such as data elements to terms that describe the data, connects business and IT and enhances organizational collaboration and productivity. In this blog we will describe how TopBraid EDG can help you automate this process.

Deriving Foreign Keys with TopBraid EDG

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...