Our Blog

We are committed to helping you make information meaningful

Modeling 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...

What 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...

Best 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...

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...