I came to RDF through a different path than most people. Back in the 2000s, I’d been fairly heavily involved…
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Category: Data Modeler
This is an ontologist, taxonomist, information architect, data analysts, or curator, who works with the data at a definitional level.
The Role of Context In Data
Editor’s Note: This piece was first published in 2021, but has been revised. Okay, you’ve just finished filling up the…
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Of Superheroes, Hypergraphs and the Intricacy of Roles
Ontologists, especially neophyte data modelers, often get caught up in the definition of classes, wanting to treat everything as a class. However, there are two types of things that don’t actually fit cleanly into traditional distinctions of class: roles and categorizations. I’m not going to keep the focus of this article on roles, preferring to treat categorizations separately, though they have a lot of overlap.
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To the Nth Dimension
There’s a fair amount of overlaps between programmers and mathematicians. Both tend to be very logical thinkers. Both like manipulating…
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Building Semantic File Systems for Fun and Profit
File systems have been around for a long time. Even before the advent of computers, most organizations stored their paper…
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Adding Lists and Sequences To Sparql
This particular article is a discussion about a recommendation to a given standard, that of Sparql 1.1. None of this…
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What’s In A Name?
I am Kurt Cagle, or, according to my birth certificate, Kurt Alan Cagle. My name is Kurt Cagle.
Now, think about that for a bit. The to be verb is remarkably slippery, and it is slippery in almost every language on the planet that has such a construct.
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