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TopQuadrant Named in 2021 Gartner® Market Guide for Active Metadata Management
Recently, TopQuadrant™ was named in the 2021 Gartner Market Guide for Active Metadata Management. According to Gartner, “active metadata management is an emerging set of capabilities across multiple data management markets resulting from continuous...
read moreModeling Graph Relationships
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...
read moreWhat is a Data Fabric – Q&A and Implementation Status
Data fabric is a new architecture pattern that is growing in popularity. Interest in the data fabric architecture is high as evidenced by the number of people that signed up and attended our recent webinar on "How Metadata Management Must Evolve to Support Data...
read moreBest Approaches for Using and Extending FIBO Vocabulary
This blog discusses approaches for using and extending FIBO Vocabulary or FIBO-V. Recently, we have been hearing from some financial services firms that are not interested in the full logic of the FIBO ontology. Instead, they prefer to use FIBO as a business glossary...
read moreWhy 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...
read moreWhat 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....
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