This post is number 7 in a sequence of 7. Click here to get to the beginning. The ‘<on>’ and ‘<no>’ symbols The ‘<on>’ and ‘<no>’ symbols are used to begin and …
Carmot ODL (6) – inheritance
This post is number 6 in a sequence of 7. Click here to get to the beginning. The ‘:’ symbol – type inheritance Many of the goals of the Carmot language have …
Carmot ODL (5) – echo fields
This post is number 5 in a sequence of 7. Click here to get to the beginning. The ‘><’, ‘><><‘, and ‘?><‘ symbols – echo fields The echo field symbols were added …
Carmot ODL (4) – ‘@@’
This post is number 4 in a sequence of 7. Click here to get to the beginning. The ‘@@’ symbol – relative collection reference The ‘@@’ symbol, as one might expect given …
Carmot ODL (3) – ‘##’
This post is number 3 in a sequence of 7. Click here to get to the beginning. The ‘##’ symbol – persistent collection ref. The ‘##’ symbol, as one might expect given …
Carmot ODL (2) – ‘#’
This post is number 2 in a sequence of 7. Click here to get to the beginning. The ‘#’ symbol – Persistent ref. The persistent reference symbol ‘#’ is used …
Carmot ODL (1) – ‘@’
As mentioned previously (see here), the Carmot ontology definition language (ODL) is an extension of the C programming language, which itself is perhaps the most widespread and fundamental high level language …
Chess is not hard enough!
Real world problems make computer chess look easy…
The state of the union
In an earlier post (here) lamenting blind unthinking use of Object Oriented Programming and espousing OOP alternatives, I made the following statement: “What in my opinion is the greatest feature …
Database is a dirty word
Today’s databases drastically limit what problems we can tackle…
A new approach to Ontology
Ontology should be based on science, not on philosophy…
Contiguous/Disjoint Ontologies
Ontology isn’t an add on, its the only way to access data…
An Ontology of Everything?
An impossible pipe dream right? Maybe not…
Taxis won’t get you there
Taxonomic thinking prevents ‘real’ data integration and limits insights…
The Rest is all Semantics
Much of this post and the illustrations within are taken from a Semantic Web lecture by John Davies, BT. The motivation behind the semantic web, for which OWL is the …
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