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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...
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....
read moreWhy 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...
read moreRDF-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...
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